Past tense

Which is correct to say in spanish?Donde estabas?o Donde estuviste?where were you?o como estaba tu dia?o como estuvo tu dia?how was your day?or how to ask these questions?

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Permalink Reply by frank on December 10, 2009 at 9:21pm: donde estabas and como estuvo tu dia; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by René Moraga on December 10, 2009 at 10:08pm: -When we ask about the place where someone was, the two sentences are correct:
¿Dónde estabas?: is common in formal situation, for asking to an adult or elderly people, and for asking about the location when someone were time ago.
¿Dónde estuviste?: is common in informal situation or for asking to someone the place when he was few minutes before.

-How was your day?: the common form for asking is ¿como estuvo tu día?, the other form isn't incorrect, we the native speaker understand perfectly both question, but ¿como estaba tu día? sound little rare for us.

PD: any correction about my English please said me. Bye.; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by jose antonio iraheta on December 10, 2009 at 10:20pm: Bueno se puede preguntar de las dos maneras, en el primer caso, es correcto decir ¿Dònde estabas? o ¿ dònde estuviste?. y en el segundo caso lo correcto es decir ¿ Còmo estuvo tu dia?; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by Yero on December 10, 2009 at 10:28pm: Hello lovlycare.

1) Boy, this is a tough question, because (especially in an informal context) I use them interchangeably.

If you want me to be a little bit more specific, I'd say that "Estaba" involves a longer time period, and "Estuviste" involves a specific, precise moment.

¿Dónde estabas? would be the most common one, and ¿Dónde estuviste? would be like a question from your parents haha.

2) Well, between those two ¿cómo estuvo tu día? is the right one.

However, there are many ways to say "how was your day?" I'll list a few:

¿Cómo fue tu día?

¿Qué tal ha ido el día?

¿Qué tal estuvo tu día?

¿Cómo te fue hoy? <---- That's the one I use

As you might see there are many ways to say the same thing!

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Permalink Reply by lovlycare on December 11, 2009 at 9:54am: Muchas gracias,Que Dios te bendiga; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by lovlycare on December 11, 2009 at 9:58am: Muchas gracias Frank; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by lovlycare on December 11, 2009 at 10:37am: Muchas Gracias mi amigo,que tengas un dia bendito; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by Pedro mendoza on December 11, 2009 at 11:12am: Se pude preguntar de ambas formas Donde estabas? y Donde estuvistes? y con respecto a la segunda lo correcto es Como estuvo tu dia?; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by Juan Manuel Mtz on December 11, 2009 at 11:26am: Hola, mira las dos formas son correctas para este caso. Donde estabas? o Donde estuviste?where were you?
y para how was your day? la mas comun y usada seria ¿como estuvo tu dia?.; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by lovlycare on December 11, 2009 at 11:39am: Muchas gracias mi amigo,que tengas un dia bendito; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by lovlycare on December 11, 2009 at 11:42am: Entiendo mi amigo,gracias,y que Dios te bendigo; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)

Permalink Reply by motley on December 20, 2009 at 9:13am: René Moragas

PD: any correction about my English please tell me. Bye.

said is past tense for to say

past tense for to tell is told; ▶ Reply to This (Please don't include e-mail or Skype address)