Llevo guardados todos los tickets del mes por si tengo que pedir alguna devolución.

I’ve kept all the receipts from this month in case I need to ask for a refund.

Breakdown of Llevo guardados todos los tickets del mes por si tengo que pedir alguna devolución.

• yo: I
• algún: some
• de: of
• pedir: to ask for

Questions & Answers about Llevo guardados todos los tickets del mes por si tengo que pedir alguna devolución.

Why is llevo used here? Doesn’t llevar usually mean to carry?

Yes, llevar often means to carry / to take / to wear, but it also has a very common extended use in Spanish.

In llevo guardados todos los tickets, llevar + past participle/adjective means something like:

• to have kept
• to have been keeping
• to keep and still have in that state

So llevo guardados todos los tickets suggests:

• I’ve kept all the receipts
• and I still have them saved/kept now

It emphasizes the resulting state of the receipts: they are still kept.

This is different from simply saying he guardado todos los tickets, which just states the action of having saved them, without highlighting the current state as strongly.

Why is it guardados and not guardado?

Because guardados agrees with todos los tickets, which is:

• masculine
• plural

So:

• guardado = masculine singular
• guardada = feminine singular
• guardados = masculine plural
• guardadas = feminine plural

Here the sentence is treating guardados almost like an adjective describing the receipts: they are kept/saved.

That is why it matches tickets.

What exactly does llevo guardados mean compared with guardo or he guardado?