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My favorite is that it's ingrained in the language that living is temporary: "I am alive" uses "estar" -> "Estoy vivo." But "I am dead" also uses "estar" -> "
by onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
My favorite is that it's ingrained in the language that living is temporary:
"I am alive" uses "estar" -> "Estoy vivo."
But "I am dead" also uses "estar" -> "Estoy muerto."
AFAIK, when most people die, they are dead forever.
- eloisius 5y agoBecause temporary vs permanent is not the correct categorizations of estar and ser. It's more like state vs characteristic. State and characteristic is still a fuzzy boundary, but hey it's a human language.