Word
¿Quieres salir conmigo el fin de semana?
Meaning
Do you want to go out with me on the weekend?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of ¿Quieres salir conmigo el fin de semana?
querer
to want; to love (a person)
el fin de semana
the weekend
salir
to go out, to leave / to appear, to come out (on the body)
conmigo
with me
Questions & Answers about ¿Quieres salir conmigo el fin de semana?
The current lesson is about irregular "yo" forms like salgo (I go out). Why does this sentence just use salir?
When two verbs are used together in a phrase, only the first one changes its ending (conjugates). Here, quieres (you want) is the conjugated verb, so the second verb stays in its original dictionary form: salir (to go out). If you wanted to reply "I am going out", you would use the irregular form from this lesson: salgo.
Why is the word for "with me" conmigo instead of con mí or con yo?
In Spanish, the preposition con (with) physically merges with the pronoun for "me" to create a special, single word: conmigo. You will never use con mí or con yo. A similar thing happens for "with you", which becomes contigo.
The English translation says "on the weekend", but the Spanish sentence just says el fin de semana. Where is the word for "on"?
Spanish doesn't use prepositions like en to say things happen "on" a certain day or weekend. You just use the article el (the). So, el fin de semana literally translates to "the weekend", but it naturally means "on the weekend" in this sentence.
The verb for "to want" is querer. Why does it change to quieres here?