con
/kon/
Translation
with
Examples
.
I am going to the cinema with my brother tonight.
¿ lata ?
Can you open the tin with this knife?
, , .
Speak calmly, please, I can't understand anything when you shout.
cajón.
She cut it with a knife she had in the drawer.
muchísima paciencia resultados.
She works with great patience and always gets good results.
Con is one of the most common Spanish prepositions, covering accompaniment ("with someone"), instrument ("with a knife"), and manner ("with calm"). It does not contract with the following article the way Italian or Portuguese do: con el, con la, con los, con las stay as two words.
When con precedes mí, ti, or sí it fuses into the special pronoun forms conmigo, contigo, consigo. Worth memorising as a unit: "¿Vienes conmigo?" - "Are you coming with me?"
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