Yo tequiro. What does that mean. Doesnt it mean I want you? And tequiro means I love you? This is what my spanish teacher said but Maybe he is wrong.
2007-02-24 06:17:51 · 13 answers · asked by The BecaNATOR 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
OK, first of all "Yo te quiero" is the same thing as "te quiero". You don't NEED the "yo" but it's not wrong to use it.
There are 2 ways to say "I love you" in Spanish:
Te quiero.
Te amo.
Contrary to what certain non-Spanish speakers may tell you, BOTH mean I love you.
"Quiero" comes from the verb "querer" which literally translates to "to want". However, when used simply as "Te quiero", it means "I love you", not "I want you". If you want to say "I want you" (in a romantic/sexual way), it's "Te deseo".
The reason "te quiero" means "I love you" while the verb "querer" means "to want" is basically that "te quiero" is a set phrase that has a specific menaing when used like that. A better example of this is the following:
To say something "costs an arm and a leg" is an English expression meaning that something is very expensive. If you translate this expression literally into Spanish, it's meaningless. It would be "cuesta un brazo y una pierna". Even though, individually,
it costs = cuesta
arm = brazo
leg = pierna
putting these words together into an expression doesn't make sense in Spanish. Spanish does, however, have its own equivalent of this expression:
"Cuesta un ojo de la cara."
In English, this literally translates to "It costs an eye of the face" which, of course, makes no sense. But saying "Cuesta un ojo de la cara" in Spanish is the same as saying "It costs an arm and a leg" in English. Both expressions are ways of saying "It's very expensive", even though they don't literally translate to the same words.
Sorry this explanation went on a little long. My point is just that you can't always translate phrases word for word, but rather have to understand what they mean as a whole, set expression.
2007-02-24 14:52:29 · answer #1 · answered by Adela 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literally it means:- my it does not speak Spanish but I want to learn
2016-03-28 22:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, "Yo te quiero" means "I love you". It does literally mean "I want you", but I'm not sure why it's used to mean "I love you". But I often wonder that myself!
2007-02-24 10:23:25 · answer #3 · answered by DavidausZueri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yo te quiero = I love you.
2007-02-24 06:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yo te quiero doesn't necessarily mean I love you. Because I love you in Spanish is "Te amo".
Yo te quiero= I want you
or
Yo te quiero=I care about you
2007-02-24 06:27:41 · answer #5 · answered by {{vP}} 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It literally means I want you but it is uaually used to say I love you... we say te quiero to say I love you.. like i would say"te quiero mucho" to my boyfriend..wich is i love you very much..it is a spanish way of saying "te amo" or i love you but just in a different way
2007-02-24 06:42:41 · answer #6 · answered by sorry richard! ps :amanda 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yo te quiero literally is I want you
type that in http://babelfish.altavista.com/
and will translate itself as i love you , i guess
2007-02-24 06:31:16 · answer #7 · answered by z j 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Te quiero means I want you or I love you in a kind of love ya sort of way. It's not a deep romantic love.
2007-02-24 06:27:53 · answer #8 · answered by limemountain 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Literally, it means "I want you"
But people use it in spanish as a way of saying I love you or I care about you.
2007-02-24 06:23:29 · answer #9 · answered by followthedot 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I can care about you, or i love you. It's You te quiero a ti.
2007-02-24 06:25:29 · answer #10 · answered by serenityfan76 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋