hey que la que mi amigo rocky here Annetta video from a blight sobre in today's video we are going to be talking about poor verse para now I have a lot of students that have been asking me about this question I'm from emails or comments on YouTube videos and they've been having trouble with poor verse para and a lot of students do because it can get confusing now if you don't know poor verse para por and para they both mean for okay so for is sport for Espada but when do you use poor when do you use para well in today's video that's what I'm gonna be discussing I'm gonna be helping you know when to use either one I even put together a little presentation for you that will help you follow along in this video so stay tuned let's get straight into it so as I mentioned I have my computer with me I'm gonna share a little presentation I made for you it's nothing it's not really beautiful or anything is really basic but I really think it's gonna help you understand pata better and understand pored better so let me share my screen with you so first we are going to discuss the word bata alright so bata means for if you translate it directly it doesn't mean for but it also is used in other instances so it doesn't necessarily just translate to for to mean for and you'll see what I mean in a second and poet is the same thing it translates to for sometimes but it also translates to other things and that's why it can get difficult to know which one to use because Spanish is not as black and white as English where it's just four four four pata can mean for it can mean it can mean other things as well border can mean for it can mean by so there there can be some confusion at times so yeah let me share my screen with you first we're covering pada now the first instance for pada would be destination okay so in this instance it doesn't really translate to four but this is when you would use the word pada so you'll hear me say this a lot I always use para for a destination so we are taught in school to say like if I say voy a la discoteca we always use ah but native speakers a lot of times we use para instead of ah so we say voy para la discoteca or if your Caribbean Spanish like me I say boy bah dah discoteca but um so para is used for destination anytime you're going somewhere um you're going to a destination AAS van para Colombia they're going to Colombia so you you would implement para after ear so instead of ear ah you would say ear para to go to a destination so that's one use of para you would use para for destination as you see para doesn't only mean for also has a lot of other meanings and it's used in a lot of different instances as we see here alright now the next instance that you would use para is for goals now keep in mind this doesn't necessarily have to mean a goal as in achieving a goal like a lifelong goal that you're trying to achieve this is just means to achieve I'm doing this to achieve that all right so that's what I mean by goals here so for instance estoy entre Nando para bajar a peso I'm training to lose weight and if you wanted to say despite I mean for you could say I'm training for to lose weight so what are you doing it for to lose weight estoy internet' Nando para bajar a peso now it wouldn't exactly translate to that you wouldn't have to implement for this just means I'm training to lose weight but whenever you're doing something to achieve something else you would you wouldn't just say estoy en 3 Nando bhajate peso you wouldn't say that um you would have the para plus the infinitive so you would have para bajar a peso another example and you can see here this is not really a goal but we're trying to achieve something estoy llamando para hablar contigo I'm calling to talk to you so we remove the for and the direct trains halation but if you really want to translate this with pata meaning for its I'm calling for it to talk to you so what are you calling for I'm calling to talk to you that's what I'm calling for all right it's to talk to you but it's not just estoy llamando hablar contigo you have to implement the pod up plus the infinitive here which is I've lied contigo all right so it's used for destination it's used for goals the next thing it's for recipients okay so this is like if you have a gift to give to somebody anytime you're giving somebody something or you have something for somebody then you would use para in that instance so here we have la comida para tu madre the food is for your mom all right la comida is para tu madre this is when para directly means for all right but it's not la comida it's poor - madre la comida s para tu madre all right now the next one another example compare LA Manzana parity I bought the Apple for you so it's for you again any time there's a recipient of something it's for that person any time you're giving somebody something esto asperity this is for you all right so we have destination goals recipients now deadlines so any time that you have to have something for a day so in this example tu tienes que terminar and proyecto Parra viernes so you have to finish the project for Friday so anytime there is a deadline you would use para o que necesito el dinero para el lunes I need the money for Monday so there's a deadline to that you need this money by a certain day so there's a deadline all right so those are the four main instances you're going to use para again this is kind of a basic video to talk about the beginning things I'm sure there's some rules and and of of course there's rules that can be broken every now and then with some of these words as there always is in any language but if you can master what I teach you in this video today you will be well on your way so now that we are done with bada let's hop into port so port the first is duration now keep in mind this is different than a deadline all right this is different duration and deadline mean two different things so a deadline we use para when we say we need this by whenever duration is how much time so whenever we say so for example in this example we have trabajo por nueva or ass el diario all right so trabajo por nueva horas el diario so I work for 9 hours a day so you when say trabajo para whoever orders its trabajo por whoever orders because it's a duration so Elder mio por otro Ora's so he slept for 8 hours whenever we speak of durations of how long something happens we say this happened for this amount of time we use the word pour we don't use para alright so that's a good example of when you would use porter for 4 but for 4 I'm speaking Spanish and English together but that gives you an example of when you would use for the word for and you wouldn't use potiphar 4 so the next thing we have is motivation motivation so you could say I'm doing this for you the way I said porty so it's not I'm doing this for so it's not like if you say I'm doing this for you you wouldn't use para now if you say I have this for you you would use para remember the recipient but if you're doing something for somebody like motivation I'm doing this for you lo voy a hacer porta t me Soldado saying what import of me this is something I hear a lot in trap songs because they're gangster rappers and they're talking about me Soldado same item put on me my soldiers die for me so this is like motivation like they're doing this for me alright is that motivation behind it that's when would you sport okay so we have duration motivation next is barter in exchange so anytime we are exchanging this for that you would use Porter so if you want to trade like hey I'll give you my phone for five dollars you would you support all right de LOI tres dólares por dos botella de agua so I'll give you three dollars for two bottles of water so you're exchanging the dollars for the bottles of water de cambio Mesa Lula reporter to computadora I'll give you my cellphone for your computer again you guys are exchanging anytime you're exchanging something you would use the word boy alright so pretty simple there next we will cover mode of travel and or communication sorry if you guys hear my dog barking she's crazy but um so here we're talking mode of travel and or communication now a lot of people will think travel they'll think decimate destination I use para remember mode of travel is different than the destination destination is I'm going to this place yo voy para el gimnasio I'm going to a place but when we're talking about mode of travel we are talking like I went there by train so a lot of times port will be used for bye so I went there by train so it's really not that hard to confuse this because in this instance port isn't really used for for it's used for bye so another ways of communication as well so Mae hablo por - salut Lud so he talked to me by cellphone so Porter means by when we're speaking of mode of travel and or communication Bassano put a real we pass by the river so it's really not that hard to mix up Porter when it comes to the mode of travel and or communication because para doesn't mean by Porter means by so anytime you say I traveled by train I traveled by airplane I passed by this I passed by that then you would use the porter so an example of how you can use the destination and the mode of travel in one sentence you could say yo voy para la tienda por el carro or por la Guagua so I'm going to the store by car or by bus alright so mode of travel and or communication you would use by I did I talked to him by the cellphone I passed by this I pass by that and you would use Porter for bye alright next let's cover some frases day para so we have parati which is for you again whenever we say party it's if we have something for that person because remember it's the recipient thing alright so I have this for you paraty para que and para que both of those it really depends on the accent so you could on the accent over the e so you could say you could use para que to say I'm doing this so that this happens estoy haciendo esto para que something happens or you can use it in similar way as porta queso por que means Y so para que would mean like for what alright so you can use para que for a question and you can use it so that it's kind of the same thing as porque because you you could use porque as Y or because it's the same thing here you could use para que for for what or you can use it first so that and then we have para siempre means forever so the word forever you would say para siempre now we could talk about some Frances de por por favor please put a hemp lo for example por supuesto of course por ciento percentage port okay I just went over that one um because or you could put it together I mean Y or you could put it together and say because Portofino means finally so you can see there are a lot of different instances when you you sport and para so it's one the first thing is to not get confused and think por and para only mean for as I showed you they mean a lot of different things port also means by para um can be used in plus the infinitive to mean to achieve something so there are a lot of things you have to remember but the more you practice this the more it's going to become second nature and it would pretty much be the equivalent of putting the wrong word in an English sentence like you just wouldn't do it because that's not what sounds right over time when you practice this that's what it's gonna be like for Spanish you won't mix up these port and pata as much because you'll just subconsciously know what feels comfortable and you'll know that this sentence should use para this sentence should use port this again was the first lesson on port and pata I'm sure we will cover many more lessons I'm sure I'll get a lot more questions on port and para and I'm sure there's some things that I left out and again I'm a teacher just and everyday I'm trying to improve to become a better teacher so that you can become better with your Spanish so I will continue studying port para trying to search maybe little rules that I may have left out that can continue to help you and yeah if you enjoyed this video you already know what to do hit the thumbs up for me if you want to learn more Spanish take your Spanish to the next level become conversationally fluent I have free training that can help you get there click that link that I've pinned in the comments you'll see it it's called speak Spanish faster calm slash lost in translation go there do the training it's free and subscribe to our channel comment below if you have any other questions and yeah again subscribe turn on notifications so you never miss another video until next time I'll see you then