How do you say my wifes name is Amanda in Spanish?

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How to say my wife’s name is Amanda in Spanish?

¿Cómo se dice my wife’s name is Amanda en español? English to Spanish translation of “el nombre de mi esposa es Amanda” (my wife’s name is Amanda).

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“My wife’s name is Amanda.”Translation:Mi esposa se llama Amanda.February 24, 2019

February 24, 2019

60 CommentsJEPK13Plus412Why is it wrong to say “La nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”?July 3, 2019E3D0A1376La El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda.
Mi esposa se llama Amanda.July 18, 2019galbuberWhy not mi espose nombre es amanda?February 15, 2020fehrerdefPlus776First of all it is “esposa”, not “espose”.
And the construction does not make sense, you need a genitive (possessive form). Your sentence is as nonsensical as “My wife name is amanda”.February 15, 2020galbuberI understand, esposa… but there is no difference between my wife’s name is amanda and my wife name is amanda… February 15, 2020fehrerdefPlus776″my wife name” does not make any sense. It is ungrammatical. It has to be “my wife’s” name”. And you need an equivalent construction to show possession in Spanish. That would be “el nombre de mi esposa” (“the name of my wife”).
But for” X’s name is” you’d rather use “X is calling him/herself”, which is “X se llama”.February 15, 2020tsundori356is “se” like “su”? or similar in any way? like if su means his/hers, is it like ” ‘s “??February 24, 2019Philippe944551I think ‘se’ is reflexive. It’s used like ‘myself’ ‘his self’ ‘her self’.. ‘su’ is more like ‘his’ or ‘hers’March 18, 2019Brad427342PlusWhen do we use llama or nombre?March 26, 2021fehrerdefPlus776your choiceMarch 26, 2021xSaiya2What’s wrong with ” mi esposa su nombre es Amanda? “September 13, 2021fehrerdefPlus776That would be like saying “My wife her name is Amanda” in English, i.e. grammatically wrong.
Since you can’t show a possession using ” ‘s” in Spanish, you’d have to say something like “The name of my wife is Amanda”, which would be “El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”.
This is correct, but unnecessarily complicated. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” (literally “My wife calls herself Amanda”) is far more elegant.September 13, 2021ChristineM114362554Thank you!January 16, 2022abundantly1555Why is “Mi marida se llama Amanda” wrong? I know marido is husband, so I thought marida means wife. Am I wrong?January 9, 2021Jim8161ModPlus687Sorry – there is no such word as “marida” January 9, 2021Ethel85599Does it not work to say, “Se llama mi esposa Amanda”? I’m used to Latin where word order is often not importantNovember 7, 2021fehrerdefPlus776Most of today’s languages are not like Latin in this respect.
Here we have: the subject usually goes first.November 7, 2021jofbar542What is the difference between marido and esposo? What’s the pair of esposa? Marida?November 27, 2021fehrerdefPlus776Between “marido” and “esposo” there is no real difference. Both mean “husband” or (male) spouse.
And there is no word “marida”. “esposa” is the only existing variant.November 27, 2021tommietuck1PlusLa nombre de mi esposa es Amanda. Correct?December 27, 2021fehrerdefPlus776No. “nombre” is masculine, so it is “El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”.
This is correct, but a little clumsy. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is far better.December 27, 2021DanielStark7635459Why is it “se llama” and not “te llama”? January 15, 2022fehrerdefPlus776Because it is “My wife calls herself”, not “My wife calls you”.January 15, 2022[deactivated user]I thought se is a pronoun (herself).October 12, 2019fehrerdefPlus776It is indeed. A literal translation of the sentence would be “My wife calls herself Amanda”.October 13, 2019FanicanI put “Mi esposa’s se llama Amanda.” Does the Spanish language not use “s in situations like that? Got it wrong due to “…February 9, 2021fehrerdefPlus776No, you don’t use an apostrophe in Spanish to denote possession.
But you don’t need one here anyway.
“Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is completely sufficient, because that literally means “My wife calls herself Amanda”.
Only if you use “nombre” you’d need a possessive, which is expressed by “de” (“of”) in Spanish:
“El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”. Literally “The name of my wife is Amanda”.
But that sounds clumsy. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is far better.February 9, 2021Jody421786Plus63I typed su nombre.March 1, 2021fehrerdefPlus776″su nombre” means “his name”, “her ame” or “your name” (formal).
But the sentence calls for “my wife’s name”.March 1, 2021Robert579403Plus6I put mi esposa nombre es Amanda and it stated my wife’s name id Amanda. Why am i wrongDecember 21, 2021fehrerdefPlus776What you wrote is something like “”My wife name is Amanda”. That doesn’t make much sense.
You need to express possession. In English this is done by adding ” ‘s” to “wife”. You can’t do the same in Spanish. So it would need to be something like “El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda” (“The name of my wife is Amanda”). But this is a little clumsy. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is much better.December 21, 2021DenaJenksWould, “Se llama de mi esposa es Amanda.” be acceptable?January 30, 2022fehrerdefPlus776No, that doesn’t make much sense. It translates to “He/She calls himself/herself of my wife is Amanda”.January 30, 2022chazdowbs757Plus417I used ‘marida’ instead of ‘esposa’. Both mean ‘wife’. Did this exercise fail because I learned esposa early before marida. If I learn something in section 5 and while restoring a broken lesson, i use a word i learned most recently, will it always be wrong? Happened when I used hablando instead of hablan. both answers were right, one was just learned later than in the lesson I was restoring.February 19, 2022fehrerdefPlus776
I used ‘marida’ instead of ‘esposa’. Both mean ‘wife’.

No. “esposa” indeed meeans “wife”, but “marida” does not exist as a noun. This has already been discussed quite often, so you should know if you read the comments.February 19, 2022swedishfishswag489Why isnt Mi esposas nombre es Amanda accepted? July 9, 2020fehrerdefPlus776Because you can’t form a possessive in Spanish by adding an “s” (Spanish and English are different languages. You can’t expect that you can use the same constructions as in English).
You have to use something that resembles the English “the name of my wife”, so it woiuld be “el nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”.
But “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” (literally “My wife calls herself Amanda” is much more elegant.July 9, 2020fractalfriendzyI believe “Se llama Amanda a mi esposa” should be accepted. Am I wrong?April 23, 2020fehrerdefPlus776That’s a weird word order. Does not sound natural at all.
Would you say “Is calling herself Amanda to my wife”?April 23, 2020eliyahbaxter26Mi esposa se llama es amanda, should be rigyAugust 13, 2020fehrerdefPlus776No, it shouldn’t. It does not make sense. That would be like saying “My wife calls herself is Amanda”. The “es” doesn’t fit in here.August 13, 2020Brandy112811Why not noviaMay 19, 2019Vaelin56Novia= girlfriend. Esposa=wife.May 31, 2019

60 Comments

JEPK13Plus412Why is it wrong to say “La nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”?July 3, 2019E3D0A1376La El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda.
Mi esposa se llama Amanda.July 18, 2019galbuberWhy not mi espose nombre es amanda?February 15, 2020fehrerdefPlus776First of all it is “esposa”, not “espose”.
And the construction does not make sense, you need a genitive (possessive form). Your sentence is as nonsensical as “My wife name is amanda”.February 15, 2020galbuberI understand, esposa… but there is no difference between my wife’s name is amanda and my wife name is amanda… February 15, 2020fehrerdefPlus776″my wife name” does not make any sense. It is ungrammatical. It has to be “my wife’s” name”. And you need an equivalent construction to show possession in Spanish. That would be “el nombre de mi esposa” (“the name of my wife”).
But for” X’s name is” you’d rather use “X is calling him/herself”, which is “X se llama”.February 15, 2020tsundori356is “se” like “su”? or similar in any way? like if su means his/hers, is it like ” ‘s “??February 24, 2019Philippe944551I think ‘se’ is reflexive. It’s used like ‘myself’ ‘his self’ ‘her self’.. ‘su’ is more like ‘his’ or ‘hers’March 18, 2019Brad427342PlusWhen do we use llama or nombre?March 26, 2021fehrerdefPlus776your choiceMarch 26, 2021xSaiya2What’s wrong with ” mi esposa su nombre es Amanda? “September 13, 2021fehrerdefPlus776That would be like saying “My wife her name is Amanda” in English, i.e. grammatically wrong.
Since you can’t show a possession using ” ‘s” in Spanish, you’d have to say something like “The name of my wife is Amanda”, which would be “El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”.
This is correct, but unnecessarily complicated. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” (literally “My wife calls herself Amanda”) is far more elegant.September 13, 2021ChristineM114362554Thank you!January 16, 2022abundantly1555Why is “Mi marida se llama Amanda” wrong? I know marido is husband, so I thought marida means wife. Am I wrong?January 9, 2021Jim8161ModPlus687Sorry – there is no such word as “marida” January 9, 2021Ethel85599Does it not work to say, “Se llama mi esposa Amanda”? I’m used to Latin where word order is often not importantNovember 7, 2021fehrerdefPlus776Most of today’s languages are not like Latin in this respect.
Here we have: the subject usually goes first.November 7, 2021jofbar542What is the difference between marido and esposo? What’s the pair of esposa? Marida?November 27, 2021fehrerdefPlus776Between “marido” and “esposo” there is no real difference. Both mean “husband” or (male) spouse.
And there is no word “marida”. “esposa” is the only existing variant.November 27, 2021tommietuck1PlusLa nombre de mi esposa es Amanda. Correct?December 27, 2021fehrerdefPlus776No. “nombre” is masculine, so it is “El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”.
This is correct, but a little clumsy. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is far better.December 27, 2021DanielStark7635459Why is it “se llama” and not “te llama”? January 15, 2022fehrerdefPlus776Because it is “My wife calls herself”, not “My wife calls you”.January 15, 2022[deactivated user]I thought se is a pronoun (herself).October 12, 2019fehrerdefPlus776It is indeed. A literal translation of the sentence would be “My wife calls herself Amanda”.October 13, 2019FanicanI put “Mi esposa’s se llama Amanda.” Does the Spanish language not use “s in situations like that? Got it wrong due to “…February 9, 2021fehrerdefPlus776No, you don’t use an apostrophe in Spanish to denote possession.
But you don’t need one here anyway.
“Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is completely sufficient, because that literally means “My wife calls herself Amanda”.
Only if you use “nombre” you’d need a possessive, which is expressed by “de” (“of”) in Spanish:
“El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”. Literally “The name of my wife is Amanda”.
But that sounds clumsy. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is far better.February 9, 2021Jody421786Plus63I typed su nombre.March 1, 2021fehrerdefPlus776″su nombre” means “his name”, “her ame” or “your name” (formal).
But the sentence calls for “my wife’s name”.March 1, 2021Robert579403Plus6I put mi esposa nombre es Amanda and it stated my wife’s name id Amanda. Why am i wrongDecember 21, 2021fehrerdefPlus776What you wrote is something like “”My wife name is Amanda”. That doesn’t make much sense.
You need to express possession. In English this is done by adding ” ‘s” to “wife”. You can’t do the same in Spanish. So it would need to be something like “El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda” (“The name of my wife is Amanda”). But this is a little clumsy. “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” is much better.December 21, 2021DenaJenksWould, “Se llama de mi esposa es Amanda.” be acceptable?January 30, 2022fehrerdefPlus776No, that doesn’t make much sense. It translates to “He/She calls himself/herself of my wife is Amanda”.January 30, 2022chazdowbs757Plus417I used ‘marida’ instead of ‘esposa’. Both mean ‘wife’. Did this exercise fail because I learned esposa early before marida. If I learn something in section 5 and while restoring a broken lesson, i use a word i learned most recently, will it always be wrong? Happened when I used hablando instead of hablan. both answers were right, one was just learned later than in the lesson I was restoring.February 19, 2022fehrerdefPlus776
I used ‘marida’ instead of ‘esposa’. Both mean ‘wife’.

No. “esposa” indeed meeans “wife”, but “marida” does not exist as a noun. This has already been discussed quite often, so you should know if you read the comments.February 19, 2022swedishfishswag489Why isnt Mi esposas nombre es Amanda accepted? July 9, 2020fehrerdefPlus776Because you can’t form a possessive in Spanish by adding an “s” (Spanish and English are different languages. You can’t expect that you can use the same constructions as in English).
You have to use something that resembles the English “the name of my wife”, so it woiuld be “el nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”.
But “Mi esposa se llama Amanda” (literally “My wife calls herself Amanda” is much more elegant.July 9, 2020fractalfriendzyI believe “Se llama Amanda a mi esposa” should be accepted. Am I wrong?April 23, 2020fehrerdefPlus776That’s a weird word order. Does not sound natural at all.
Would you say “Is calling herself Amanda to my wife”?April 23, 2020eliyahbaxter26Mi esposa se llama es amanda, should be rigyAugust 13, 2020fehrerdefPlus776No, it shouldn’t. It does not make sense. That would be like saying “My wife calls herself is Amanda”. The “es” doesn’t fit in here.August 13, 2020Brandy112811Why not noviaMay 19, 2019Vaelin56Novia= girlfriend. Esposa=wife.May 31, 2019

JEPK13Plus412Why is it wrong to say “La nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”?July 3, 2019

JEPK13Plus412

Why is it wrong to say “La nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”?July 3, 2019

Why is it wrong to say “La nombre de mi esposa es Amanda”?

July 3, 2019

July 3, 2019

E3D0A1376La El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda.
Mi esposa se llama Amanda.July 18, 2019

La El nombre de mi esposa es Amanda.
Mi esposa se llama Amanda.

July 18, 2019

July 18, 2019

galbuberWhy not mi espose nombre es amanda?February 15, 2020

Why not mi espose nombre es amanda?

February 15, 2020

February 15, 2020

fehrerdefPlus776First of all it is “esposa”, not “espose”.
And the construction does not make sense, you need a genitive (possessive form). Your sentence is as nonsensical as “My wife name is amanda”.February 15, 2020

First of all it is “esposa”, not “espose”.
And the construction does not make sense, you need a genitive (possessive form). Your sentence is as nonsensical as “My wife name is amanda”.

February 15, 2020

February 15, 2020

galbuberI understand, esposa… but there is no difference between my wife’s name is amanda and my wife name is amanda… February 15, 2020

I understand, esposa… but there is no difference between my wife’s name is amanda and my wife name is amanda…

February 15, 2020

February 15, 2020

fehrerdefPlus776″my wife name” does not make any sense. It is ungrammatical. It has to be “my wife’s” name”. And you need an equivalent construction to show possession in Spanish. That would be “el nombre de mi esposa” (“the name of my wife”).
But for” X’s name is” you’d rather use “X is calling him/herself”, which is “X se llama”.February 15, 2020

“my wife name” does not make any sense. It is ungrammatical. It has to be “my wife’s” name”. And you need an equivalent construction to show possession in Spanish. That would be “el nombre de mi esposa” (“the name of my wife”).
But for” X’s name is” you’d rather use “X is calling him/herself”, which is “X se llama”.

February 15, 2020

February 15, 2020

tsundori356is “se” like “su”? or similar in any way? like if su means his/hers, is it like ” ‘s “??February 24, 2019

is “se” like “su”? or similar in any way? like if su means his/hers, is it like ” ‘s “??

February 24, 2019

February 24, 2019

Philippe944551I think ‘se’ is reflexive. It’s used like ‘myself’ ‘his self’ ‘her self’.. ‘su’ is more like ‘his’ or ‘hers’March 18, 2019

I think ‘se’ is reflexive. It’s used like ‘myself’ ‘his self’ ‘her self’.. ‘su’ is more like ‘his’ or ‘hers’