Today’s Vine is by SefChol from Mexico.  We saw him last Monday, too.  He has a series called #SiLasExpresionesFueranReales = if expressions were real/literal.

This week the expression is: me avisas cualquier cosa.

It literally means, “you let me know anything.”

Interpret it as, “Let me know if anything comes up” / “Let me know if you need anything.”

The Vine

Transcript

• Intro: Si las expresiones fueran reales:
• Guy #1: Ya voy.
• Guy #1: Me avisas cualquier cosa.
• Guy #2: Va.
• Guy #2: Como que me dio hambre, pero se me quitó.

Explanation

• Intro: If expressions were real:
• Guy #1: I’m going now.
• Guy #1: You let me know anything / “let me know if you need anything”
• Guy #2: Ok.
• Guy #2: Like, I got hungry, but then, I wasn’t anymore.

Since the expression in Spanish means “inform me of anything,”  SefChol made fun of it by having the second guy literally inform the first guy of anything – in this case, the fact that he randomly got hungry and now he’s not anymore.  It’s as though he called and said, “hey, I just went to the bathroom!”

Slow-Mo Version

Useful Phrases

• Me avisas cualquier cosa. – You let me know if anything comes up.
  • featured “expresión” from this Vine

• Avísame cualquier cosa. – Let me know if anything comes up.
  • alternate way to say it, using the command form of avisar

• Ya voy – I’m going now / I’m leaving now. 
  • ya means now/already.  in this context it means now.

• Ya me voy – I’m leaving now.
  • more emphatic way to say “I’m leaving” / “I’m going away.”
  • uses the reflexive version: irse – to go away (literally, “to go oneself”)

• Va. – OK.
  • a distinctly Mexican way of saying “ok”

• Como que… – like/as though…
  • can sometimes be used a filler word, similar to “like” in English
  • es como que… que ella quiere decirme algo = it’s like…like she wants to tell me something
  • ¡es como que no te conozco! = it’s like I don’t know you!
  • es como que ya nos conociéramos. = it’s as though we already knew each other.

• Me dio hambre – I got hungry. (literally: It gave me hunger)
  • Me da hambre – I get hungry. (present tense of dar – to give)

Verb Tenses in this Vine

We have some interesting tenses.  I’ll just point them out, and link to places where you can read more about each tense.

• si las expresiones fueran reales = if expressions were real
  • This is the past subjunctive of ser (to be).
  • It’s like the English expressions involving dreams, wishes, and hypothetical situations.
    • e.g. If I were a boy = Si yo fuera un chico (Beyonce)

• ya voy = I’m leaving now.
  • This the present tense, yo form of ir (to go).

• me avisas = you inform me / you let me know
  • This is the present tense, tú form of avisar (to inform/notify).

• me dio hambre = I got hungry
  • This is the past (preterite) tense, 3rd person form of dar (to give).
  • This is an expression: dar + feeling.
  • dar hambre = to give hunger, i.e. to make someone hungry
  • dar asco = to give disgust, i.e. to gross someone out

• se me quitó – it went away
  • this is the past (preterite) tense, 3rd person form of quitarse (reflexive verb meaning “to remove oneself”)
  • Why is there a “me”?  It’s literally saying “it removed itself from me.”

VOCABULARY

See if you can identify these words/phrases in English.

Most importantly, the featured phrase of this Vine:

• me avisas cualquier cosa.
• la cosa
• dar
• avisar
• me dio hambre
• me da hambre
• voy.
• ya voy.
• como que fuera real
• el hambre
• avísame.

If you’re still reading this, watch the Vine again!  Then try to speak the words of the Vine out loud again, as slowly as you need to.