IR vs IRSE - How to Say "To Go" & "To Leave" in Spanish (Grammar Tip)
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- See how the Spanish verbs ir vs irse change meaning and how we should use them in a Spanish sentence.
Plus avoid the most common errors that students make with these two verbs.
Specifically, here is what you will learn in this video:
First, you'll learn the subtle difference between ir and irse and the English equivalent for each of these verbs.
While many Spanish reflexive verbs have an equivalent in English such as "to wash yourself" or "to dress yourself", "irse" behaves differently.
You also learn about how to form Spanish reflexive verbs and how to conjugate both the reflexive and non-reflexive versions of "ir".
Lastly, you'll learn about a few common mistakes that occur with ir and irse including knowing when to use "voy" vs "me voy" and how to combine "irse" with other verbs in phrases such as "I have to leave".
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Oh my gosh, I have been so confused about me voy and voy. This video has pulled back the curtains & made it crystal clear in less than 12 minutes 👏
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Nice video! soy profesora de español para inmigrantes en España y uno de mis alumnos que habla inglés me ha preguntado cuando usar “que y cual “ y “ aun y todavía”. 😊Tus videos lo explican muy bien!!! Gracias, les enviare tus videos a todos mis alumnos angloparlantes.
Por cierto al conjugar un verbo creo hay que incluir las tres personas del singular y las tres del plural ..
asi incluimos también vosotros .. 😊 ¿os vais? ¿ya os vais?
No creo que sea necesario incluir la conjugación de los verbos para el pronombre 'vosotros', pues es obvio que él enseña español latinoamericano y se enfoca en esa variante de la lengua, y aquí en Latinoamérica ese pronombre está en desuso absoluto, además, es un arcaísmo solamente presente en textos como la Biblia, por lo que no es necesario aprenderlo ya sabiendo la conjugación de los verbos para 'ustedes', pues 'vosotros' solo se usa en España.
I agree. Even though vosotros is rarely used in the new world, one still must understand its use if they are going to be fluent in Spanish. Also, please list the conjugations in two columns (singulars and plurals) ideally in a chart of sorts. I believe this is helpful for several reasons.
Thanks for explaining "me tengo que ir" etc. th-cam.com/video/-nXNr6pOG_0/w-d-xo.html
The true suggestion would be to teach “vos”
Literally 40% of Spanish speakers use “vos,” whereas over 98% of them do not use “vosotros” at all
It’s rather strange that I’ve never heard anyone advocate for “vos,” yet many “academics” seem to complain when vosotros isn’t taught… 🤔
Sounds like blatant Spain-centrism to me… If only they could leave the colonial mindset behind, and admit the fact that “vos” is far more important to learn, if you want to communicate effectively with the most people. Not just those hand-picked by the self-aggrandizing RAE 🙃
(At the end of the day, it’s up to the Spanish student and their needs, of course. If you live in Europe, and would only ever use Spanish in Spain, then by all means learn vosotros. Personally, I do not bother testing myself on vosotros, but I can immediately recognize and understand the conjugations when I see them written down
However, what I find unforgivable is that not a single teacher or service has ever once tried to teach me vos. It never seems to show up in any of the wise and powerful textbooks… Yet as a Californian in constant contact with Latin-Americans, and easy travel to Mexico and beyond, vos would be far more useful to me
I literally don’t know anything past “vos sos,” and I think that’s really sad. I’m sure they’ll understand me just fine if I use tuteo, but I won’t be able to understand anyone using voseo. I cannot recognize vos forms at all, and not a single one of the books or apps I use even gives me the option to study it!)
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Thanks Andrew, Ir & Irse are now so much clearer in my head, I never realised that every verb could be reflexive. I also feel a bit silly for saying that, maybe that is very basic.( well not for me). I will watch every video that you make, Yo prometo. Graaaaacias!!
¡¡Gracias a ti Peter!! Thanks for watching.
Very well done explanation! Thank you.
Very good video Andrew, I am going to use it with my students (voy a usarlo en clase). Just one thing: Answering "sí, voy" to all those questions at the end sounds very unnatural in Spanish. In fact, we would almost never say that except as a joke. Same with the "me puedes pedir un refresco?" We would answer "Sí, te lo pido" or something like that. The only case where people normally answer "Sí, voy" to any question has to do with going somewhere, like in "¿vas conmigo a la fiesta? / Sí, sí voy" and even there it sounds incomplete. The truth is that we DO NOT answer "yes, I´m going to" to any question; we find other ways to agree or comply: muy bien / claro / cómo no / con gusto... et cetera.
Thanks for sharing Sol! This probably changes from region to region. I know people from Spain and Mexico that speak this way.
I’m South American but grew up in central Mexico (and lived there for thirty years) but I’ve never heard it. True, it could be dialectal but I would say that it could be an idiolect issue or maybe just saying it jokingly. In any case, I really love your video. It is super clear and presenting it as two different verbs in English is just brilliant! Cheers.
I'm from Dominican republic and we may say either way: si, voy or ya voy
That's depends if you want or don't want to talk a lot
this lesson is amazing. Thank you so much!
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🌟Excellent video!🌟
There's another meaning for 'irse', but it is always followed by 'a' or 'para', or also 'a' plus the verb 'vivir', then we have 'irse para', 'irse a' or 'irse a vivir', meaning pretty much the same thing.
It can be used in every tense.
That meaning is 'to move to'.
Example:
Antes vivía en Chicago, pero ahora me vine a Miami: I used to live in Chicago, but I currently live in Miami.
Mi hermano se fue para los Estados Unidos cuando era pequeño: my brother moved to the US when he was a kid.
En unas semanas me iré a vivir a la Ciudad de México: I'll move to Mexico City in the weeks to come.
No nos habríamos venido a vivir a Cancún si nos hubiera ido bien en Madrid: we would not have moved in Cancún if it had gone well in Madrid.
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Thanks for the feedback Yeside!!
Thanks for this great video. This clarified so much for me!
You are just fantastic. So clear!
mucho claro! especialidad "Si, ya voy" which translates to "leave me alone"
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"Me voy" and "Nos vamos" are phrases I've heard my whole life that I knew, but didn't know. Like, leaving a family member's house, my mother would say , "Me voy" or "Nos vamos" and I knew it was something like "I'm/we're leaving" but never thought about the construction of it
Claro como el agua, muchas gracias Andrew
Finally... I now know how to use ir in the reflexive... thank you
Excelente video Andrew, sabes que es muy util para las personas de habla hispana estas explicaciones de frases y gramática en español desde la perspectiva de las personas de habla inglesa, aparte de que tu forma de hablar ingles es muy clara para las personas que no lo hablamos correctamente y tu español es excelente, muchas de las cosas que explicas en tus videos acerca de nuestra lengua materna nos ayuda también a reflexionar si estamos usándola correctamente. Saludos a todas las personas que están interesadas en aprender a hablar español, felicitaciones y un million de gracias. Thank you very much.
So so helpful, thank you!
Thanks so much. It was very helpful.
Really Helpful and educational
Hi Andrew, thanks for a really great lesson on both verbs, it will really help me with my learning. Please do more! Muchas Gracias
Thanks for the feedback Jackie!
Good explanation and teaching. Simple and too the point. You could also say I or anyone takes themselves out of here and goes somewhere else. It's physical leaving a place.
Thanks. This was very informative and so simple to understand. I’m Russian and it is definitely easier for me to understand this theme than for an English speaker, but some things like “tengo que” is so much easier if you know English. Definitely pays to know more than one language.
As always, super useful!!! Thank you:)
Very helpful, thank you.
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When I’m leaving a conversation I struggled with saying necesito salir or necesito irme. This video makes me thing I should use IR over salir.
Both are okay, it’s just important to remember the “me” with “irme”.
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Gracias Señor
Your lessons are great. Thank you!
Great video. Maybe explain the difference between irse and salir?
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Excellent teaching, Muchisimas gracias!
You make things so easy to understand, thank you! If you haven't already done one, would you please explain "dar?" Like give it to me. he gave it to her, I give it to you, etc. Major confusion here! And also male vs female on some usages. Like if I'm a female, how to I tell a male to calm down. Would I say "tranquila" because I'm female? Or would I say tranquilo because I'm talking to a male? Me to another female, tranquila?
Gracias Andrew por otro vídeo informativo sobre IR / IRSE. Tus explicaciones son muy claras.👍Voy a repasar toda la gramática pues todavía tengo dudas para entender las diferencias sutiles. Ahora, voy para quedar con mis amigos españoles. Vamos al bar de al lado de mi piso.😜 ¡Tengo que irme, se hace tarde! Hasta pronto.😜
Nunca sabía estas expresiones cortas:
'¡Sí, voy! = ¡Yes, I'm going to do it!
'Ya, voy! = YES, I'm going NOW!! (I'm getting annoyed!)
¡Muy bien! Gracias Cleona! 😊
Great lesson
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thank you so much - really well explained - one quick thing please. If i have to go can i just say tengo que ir, rather than tengo que irme?
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Este video es muy útil, Andrew. Gracias. ¡Me voy!
Very good and focused hope for more
Hans
Gracias ☺️
Gracias, me gustaría mucho tu vídeos
Great explanation. I'd rather say "Muy buena explicación". Gracias.
Gracias🌹
Hola! Muchas gracias por el video.
Can you explain the difference between ir and irse in the command form? Specifically, what's the difference between ¡Vamos! and ¡Vámonos!? Is it simply "Let's go" vs "Let's leave"? And which would be more commonly used?
Thanks again for all your videos, podcasts, and blog posts!
Great information, now I finally understand the difference - and much more! (y)
Great to hear! 😀
Very nice
Great video. Better than "butterfly Spanish"
Can you continue to make videos on the most commonly used reflexive verbs?
Yes, that's a good suggestion. Thanks Eric!! 🙏
Muchas Gracias
He say:
In english:
I have to go.
In Spanish:
Tengo que irme. (This's ok).
But i just say: Debo irme. (And this's ok too).
(Spanish speaker here).
Hola, tienes algún vídeo explicando el subjuntivo? Es que me gustaría saber cómo puedo explicárselo a mi amiga para que mejore mucho en español :)
Gracias! Y también se me olvidó a añadir. Tengo por ejemplo problemas con objeto directo y indirecto a veces. Y sería útil a hablar cuando usamos 'a' y 'de" frente del verbo y también siempre me confuso con acento (más y mas etc). Y los verbos reflexivos quizás))) Muchas gracias 🙂🎊
Nice one
This video and your videos in general have been extremely helpful in my stumbling journey. Thank you so much.
Now I think I finally get reflexive verbs, but it still seems to me that almost all Spanish teachers including this one make a fundamental error. I'll make this brief with only one point, in case I'm horribly wrong. Hopefully someone can put me straight painlessly.
It's this.
Everyone says there are reflexive and non-reflective verbs, but that's not true. There are just VERBS and most can be used reflexively or non-reflexively.
Isn't that a far more accurate statement of things?
And they go on to say you can tell a reflexive verb becuase it has SE at the end, but that's also not generally true and certainly not intrinsically inevitable. You don't typically see IRSE at all - what you SEE - arew the reflexive conjugations of IR which are almost never "IRSE". So that's another huge misdirection, isn't it?
If so, then I wonder why things are (mis-)taught in this way.
Yes, I agree Chris. I’ve talked about this very point in my video on “verbs like gustar”.
@@realfastspanish Thanks. I'll take a look.
Pardon for asking, but why don't you conjugate the second person plural in ir/irse?
Para los españoles incluso se nos hace muy difícil explicar qué tipo de “se” es por tiene muchos valores. Es muy difícil de analizar en frases 😥
The example that you gave: "Tengo que irme. (I have to go.)" . Would it be incorrect to say simply "Tengo que ir", also meaning "I have to go"? Or is that not correct? Or, must "IR" be absolutely used reflexively when using 'Tengo que....." ? Thanks.
Also still learning, but I know you can say Tengo que ir a la tienda" but not Tengo que ir".
En el español se puedo omitir el sujeto porque el verbo está conjugado de acuerdo al sujeto . Ex. Yo voy al parque /Voy al parque. Es lo mismo ya se entiende que tu te quieres ir al parque
i have two simple questions salir and irse can be used the same way right ? also if irse means to leave ,,and in spanish i want to say im going home why does it translate to me voy a casa ?wouldnt that translate to,, leave home instead of im going home ??
Nice extra learning next to duolingo Spanish course
Thanks for the kind words Hank!
@9:48, wouldn’t we say in English, “Yes, I am”?
Gracias por explicar. A veces escucho alguien dice "ya voy!" o "voy!". Por ejemplo cuando visité una amiga y su mamá le llamó a ella. (Mamá: "María! Te necesito!") Ella respondió con "Voy!". Pensé que usar una forma de venir sería mejor. Es correcto decir "Voy" así? 🤔 Gracias por todo!
¡Correctísimo!
Totalmente correcto.
Incluso en mi región en España, además de "¡Voy!" tambien decimos "¡Vengo!" 🤣🤦
I don't know if it's because Cuban Spanish is different but I'm around my boyfriend's Cuban family a lot and every time they say their going to leave, they just say voy! No one asks where, they just know they're leaving hehe. Maybe it's just an informal way of saying you have to go?
Always add YA to sound polite, Ya me tengo que ir.
The correct answer to those questions are:
Vas a ir hiking este fin de semana? Si voy or Si voy a ir
Vas a terminar tu comida? Si or Si voy a terminar mi comida.
Vas a asistir a la reunión esta tarde? Si or Si voy a asistir.
Thank you a lot
Why do you not include the vosotros form in your lessons? Do you teach mainly for South American Spanish? I originally learnt Spanish to visit Ecuador where they don´t use vosotros but having moved to Spain have had a lot of trouble learning and using the vosotros form.
Hola Kim, at Real Fast Spanish we teach international Spanish, which means if one country only uses a word or grammar rule (such as Spain and vosotros; or Argentina and vos), then we exclude it from our curriculum. All that said, I have spent a lot of time in Spain and as a Spanish student you can avoid the "vosotros" form by either using the second-person singular "tú" form (even when addressing more than one person) or you can use the second-person formal form with ustedes. It is certainly not necessary to master the "vosotros" form to have a strong confident conversational level of Spanish, even in Spain.
Hola estoy aprendiendo a hablar ingles ,me gustaria practicar con un hablante nativo que quiera aprender español
So isn’t it redundant then to say “voy” (I’m going to) and then “a” (to) ???
In Spanish it's necessary to add a preposition behind VOY many times so that the sentence makes sense, because you can say: VOY a/hacia/de/por/para/con, etc ... Regards.
Hi, salir means to leave, doesn't it? Then how would we use salir and which would we choose between salir and irse?
It's a good question, James! In a lot of situations, "irse" and "salir" are interchangeable. But, in addition, "salir" can also mean "to go out".
@@realfastspanish I see. Thank you Señor Andrew, your videos have been very helpful. I recommend Real Fast Spanish to all my friends. You are "un maestro muy bien". Stay safe!
@@realfastspanish excelent explanation. As a native from Spain, I would add that salir implies you are exiting or getting out from somewhere, such as a building, a room, a car. I hope it helps
Please add the vosotros (spanish form you all ) gracias
So I cannot say “tengo que ir” by itself?
cual es la difrencia entre
1) tengo que ir.
2) tengo que irme.
cual no es correcta?
Ambas son correctas, sólo que el significado es diferente.
Both are correct.
1) I have to go (somewhere)
2) I have to leave/go
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Señor:
¿Voy =im coming (por móvil ?