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Sometimes you need to buy items for people other than yourself. Let's practice telling the clerk who you are buying the items for. This 7th episode teaches you just that. It may be helpful to review Unit 1.10 of the podcast if you struggle to remember how to say each family member.
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Learn Spanish with Live Lingua — 8.7: Buying items for other people. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Library of Spanish, Episode 8-7, Buying items for other people. Sometimes you need to buy items for people other than yourself. Let's practice telling the clerk who you're buying these items for. To indicate who the items for, you'd simply use the word Pada, P-A-R-A, Pada. And then add the person you're buying the item for. So if you said Pada Mi, it would mean for yourself. If I said Pada Mi Esposa, it would be for my wife. If you want to brush up on how to say different family members in Spanish, check out Episode 110 of the Live English Spanish podcast so you can review them. In this exercise, you know the drill. We're going to say it in Spanish and in English. Just repeat both out loud so you can memorize how to say each one of these phrases. Let's get started. I'm Pizem. Para mí.
For me. Para mi amigo. For my friend, male. Para mi amiga. For my friend, female. Para mi esposo. For my husband. Para mi esposo. For my wife. Para mi hijo. For my son. Para mi hija. For my daughter. Para mi hija.
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