Word
¿Estáis ocupados o listos?
Meaning
Are you busy or ready?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of ¿Estáis ocupados o listos?
o
or
estar
to be (location/state)
ocupado
busy / occupied (taken, in use)
listo
ready
Questions & Answers about ¿Estáis ocupados o listos?
Who is the speaker talking to when they say estáis?
Why do we use estar instead of ser in this sentence?
We use estar to talk about temporary states or conditions. Being busy (ocupados) or ready (listos) are states that change, so estar is the right choice here.
I thought listo meant "smart". Why does it mean "ready" here?
Why do ocupados and listos end in -os?
Adjectives in Spanish have to match the people they describe in gender and number. Because the speaker is talking to a plural "you" that includes at least one male (or a mixed group of men and women), the adjectives take the masculine plural -os ending.