Telling your age When responding to the question or just talking about age in Spanish, you begin your sentence with a form of tener, then put the correct number and end by saying the word años. For example, if the child is 5 years old, he would answer your question by saying, Tengo cinco años.

It means “how are you?” – as a person. Responses could be: Soy introvertido(a)

Situation 12: Talking about being young. In this case you use verb SER when you want to say that the person is actually young. My grandfather is young for his age. Mi abuelo está joven para su edad.

“Ser retrasado” means to be developmentally delayed, mentally slow, learning-disabled, etc. “Estar retrasado” means to be delayed or late.

Estar: An Irregular Verb

Estar is used to describe someone’s mood, and implies that this state might be temporary. For example, in “Está feliz” (He/she is happy), the person is happy now but won’t always be happy.

Since “student” is a noun, you will always use “Ser”. We can have other words in the middle such as articles (el, la, un, una), adjectives or adverbs and adjectives. But these words in between will always give more information about the noun.

Use “estar” with: health. physical states and conditions. emotional states.

La manzana está verde. The first sentence uses ser, so we’re talking about an inherent characteristic of the apple….Ser and Estar: Differences in Meaning.

“Oh, that’s easy: ser is for permanent qualities and estar is for temporary qualities.”