How long have you been married
How long have you been married
How long have you been married?
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FromPA
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Malagatown
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Yo diría, al igual que explicó en clase: «¿cuánto tiempo lleváis/llevan casados?«. En inglés ciertamente ese Present Perfect expresa que la situación sigue vigente. En castellano al menos, el Pretérito Perfecto que sería el equivalente expresaría que la situación ya no está vigente.
Saludos desde Málaga en éste, mi primer post. Tras años de uso de Wordreference y admiración por las brillantes aportaciones de tantas mentes brillantes, por fin me he animado a intentar poner mi granito, o intentarlo al menos.
JonRT
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Forero
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Actually, I find «How long have you been married?» ambiguous in this regard since it could legitimately be answered, for example, with «I have been married for five years, but my current marriage has lasted only two so far» or even «I have been married for twenty years, but now I am divorced.»
«¿Hace cuánto tiempo están casados?» is unambiguous, right?
And «¿Cuánto tiempo estuvieron casados?» as well, right?
Is «¿Cuánto tiempo llevas casado?» ambiguous at all?
FromPA
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Actually, I find «How long have you been married?» ambiguous in this regard since it could legitimately be answered, for example, with «I have been married for five years, but my current marriage has lasted only two so far» or even «I have been married for twenty years, but now I am divorced.»
«¿Hace cuánto tiempo están casados?» is unambiguous, right?
And «¿Cuánto tiempo estuvieron casados?» as well, right?
Is «¿Cuánto tiempo llevas casado?» ambiguous at all?
mariente
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mariente
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Yo diría, al igual que explicó en clase: «¿cuánto tiempo lleváis/llevan casados?«. En inglés ciertamente ese Present Perfect expresa que la situación sigue vigente. En castellano al menos, el Pretérito Perfecto que sería el equivalente expresaría que la situación ya no está vigente.
Saludos desde Málaga en éste, mi primer post. Tras años de uso de Wordreference y admiración por las brillantes aportaciones de tantas mentes brillantes, por fin me he animado a intentar poner mi granito, o intentarlo al menos.
Muchas gracias, un genio.
Forero
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I respectfully disagree. Yes, it would usually be asked by a person who assumes you are married, but it really depends on context:
A: I’ve been married and I’ve been divorced, I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king, I’ve been young and I’ve been old, I’ve been up and down, and I’m afraid I’m a has-been. [A «has-been», by the way, is someone who has been «somebody» but no longer is.]
B: Married you say? How long have you been married?
There is nothing in the form of the question that implies A is currently married.
Present perfect is just not about the present, really:
A: Are you married?
B: Well, I have been.
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JonRT
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I don’t want to get into a long, drawn-out discussion/debate about this (seems like a waste of time), but I’ll throw this out there:
If you ONLY say «I have been married for 10 years», then this implies that you’re still married.
If you say «I had been married for 10 years. «, then whatever comes at the end of that sentence will likely determine any implication.
If you say «I have been married and I have been divorced. «, nothing is implied regarding the current situation. The person may have been married, then divorced, then remarried (and currently married); or they could have been married three times and divorced three times (and currently divorced). Unless more info is supplied, you don’t know for sure either way.
I won’t be contributing more since this convo could continue forever.
Forero
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First, there is no «for x amount of time» or «since a certain time» in the question.
Second, «for x amount of time» does not have to mean until the present. For example, «for 2 years» could mean «for a/some 2-year period», not necessarily «for all of the last 2 years».
So in the question, «How long have you been married?» does not have to mean «How long have you most recently been married?».
«Since a certain time» is ambiguous too, but I think «ever since a certain time» is clear.
Spanish is less ambiguous with both «hace» and «están casados» in present tense.
American English present perfect and Spanish present perfect really mean the same thing, except in a few areas where people say such things as «Ayer lo he hecho» (a la francesa). It is just by accident that we prefer «I have been married for x amount of time» over «It’s x amount of time (that) we are married.»
FromPA
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First, there is no «for x amount of time» or «since a certain time» in the question. The question «how long» is asking about the period of time.
Second, «for x amount of time» does not have to mean until the present. For example, «for 2 years» could mean «for a/some 2-year period», not necessarily «for all of the last 2 years». If you use present tense (have been married), it absolutely does mean that. You would have to use past tense (had been/was married) to talk about a situation that ended in the past.
So in the question, «How long have you been married?» does not have to mean «How long have you most recently been married?». It can only mean «How long have you been married as of this moment?» I don’t see any other possible interpretation.
«Since a certain time» is ambiguous too, but I think «ever since a certain time» is clear. I don’t see any ambiguity at all.
Spanish is less ambiguous with both «hace» and «están casados» in present tense.
American English present perfect and Spanish present perfect really mean the same thing, except in a few areas where people say such things as «Ayer lo he hecho» (a la francesa). It is just by accident that we prefer «I have been married for x amount of time» over «It’s x amount of time (that) we are married.»
How long have you been married
«How long have you been got married» is incorrect.
Do you mean, «How long have you gotten married? Because it means the same thing as ‘how long have you been married?'»
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how long построение вопроса
правильно я понимаю, что вопрос строится следующим образом.
1) настоящее время (как долго ты путешествуешь?) how long have you been Ving?
2) будущее (как долго ты будешь готовить суп?) how long will you be Ving?
а как правильно будет прошлое время (как долго ты учился в вузе?)
how long were you Ving? или как правильно?
подскажите, что из всего выше перечисленного правильно?
и как правильно писать и говорить этот вопрос, чтобы меня в конечном итоге поняли?
(как долго ты путешествуешь?—How long have you been travelling?
как долго ты будешь готовить суп?—How long will you be preparing soup? How long will it take you to prepare soup?
как долго ты учился в вузе?—How long have you been a university student? How long have you been studying at the university?
Что такое Ving? Что такое V1?
Правильно. present perfect continuous в одних случаях переводится настоящим временем, в других прошедшим. Все зависит от контекста и от того, какое время используется—inclusive or exclusive. Если первое, то переводим настоящим временем, если второе—то прошедшим. В хороших грамматиках эта тема довольно хорошо изложена.
как долго ты учился в вузе?—How long have you been a university student? How long have you been studying at the university?
—Должен попросить извинения. То, что я написал, будет соответствовать на русском фразе » Как долго ты УЧИШЬСЯ в вузе?»
Ваша же фраза » Как долго ты УЧИЛСЯ в вузе» будет переводиться как «How long did you attend the university? How long did you study at the university?
—Вот тут уже я не понимаю. В какую новую трансформируется глагол TO BE? Формы прошедшего времени и перфекта этого глагола хорошо известны.
то есть в данных примерах глагол to be употребляется просто во времени Present Perfect и все, безо всяких Present Perfect Continuous, так или как?
если кому понадобиться.
мне так на мой вопрос ответили на сайте http://engblog.ru
Статьи здесь ни при чем. Это все расписано в грамматиках.
Как долго ты учился в вузе?—How long did you study at the university? How long did you attend the university? How long were you a university student?