{"id":4509,"date":"2012-03-15T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2014-07-15T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:56:00","slug":"how-to-use-tan-and-tanto-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/how-to-use-tan-and-tanto-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use &#8220;tan&#8221; and &#8220;tanto&#8221; in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tan<\/strong> and <strong>tanto<\/strong> are some of the indefinidos, those words that show an indefinite quantity. Let&#8217;s check out how they are used!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tanto, tan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Tanto<\/strong> is used before nouns, acting as an adjective:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Tengo <strong>tanto<\/strong> miedo de dormir sola.<\/em> [I&#8217;m so afraid \/ I have so much fear of sleeping alone.]<br \/>\n<em>Siento <strong>tantas<\/strong> ganas de comer chocolate.<\/em> [I have such a desire to eat chocolate.]<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>It can also be used as an adverb:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Nunca vi llover <strong>tanto<\/strong>.<\/em> [I&#8217;ve never seen it rain so much.]<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>When used in the plural (<strong>tantos\/tantas<\/strong>) it means <em>muchos\/muchas<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Te he dicho <strong>tantas<\/strong> veces que no me mintieras.<\/em> [I&#8217;ve told you so many times not to lie to me.]<br \/>\n<em>Hay <strong>tantos<\/strong> intereses detr\u00e1s de esas negociaciones.<\/em> [There&#8217;s so much hiddren agenda behind those negotiations.]<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>It can also be used as a comparative:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8211; Tengo muchos amigos. \u00bfY t\u00fa?<\/em> [I have many friends. What about you?]<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; No tengo <strong>tantos<\/strong>.<\/em> [I don&#8217;t have as many.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8211; Me da mucho miedo la idea de la muerte.<\/em> [The idea of dying creeps me out.]<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; A m\u00ed, no <strong>tanto<\/strong>.<\/em> [As for me, not so much.]<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Un tanto<\/strong> means <em>un poco, algo, una parte de, cierta cantidad,<\/em> and in these cases it loses the notion of its indefinite use:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Lo veo <strong>un tanto<\/strong> raro hoy.<\/em> [He looks kind of weird today.]<br \/>\n<em>Tienes que guardar <strong>un tanto<\/strong> todos los meses para tus gastos de viaje.<\/em> [You have to save some money every month for your travel expenses.]<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Tan<\/strong> is the short form of <strong>tanto<\/strong>. It&#8217;s used before an adjective in the singular form, acting as an adverb:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Lo veo <strong>tan<\/strong> guapa.<\/em> [She looks so beautiful.]<br \/>\n<em>Lo siento <strong>tan<\/strong> triste.<\/em> [I feel he&#8217;s so sad.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember that reading and listening to natural Spanish is your great ally when you learn Spanish so pay close attention, ok?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Nos vemos prontito.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"280\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/got-an-A-280x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/got-an-A-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/got-an-A-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/got-an-A.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><p>Tan and tanto are some of the indefinidos, those words that show an indefinite quantity. Let&#8217;s check out how they are used! Tanto, tan Tanto is used before nouns, acting as an adjective: Tengo tanto miedo de dormir sola. [I&#8217;m so afraid \/ I have so much fear of sleeping alone.] Siento tantas ganas de&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/how-to-use-tan-and-tanto-in-spanish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[358365],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar","tag-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/11813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}