ABSTRACT

In the sections below you will find the most commonly used expressions to give advice and make suggestions.

Yo que tú/usted + conditional67.1.1

Yo que tú/usted, ‘if I were you’, is one of the most common expressions for giving advice and making suggestions not involving the speaker, in the spoken language. Unlike English, this does not carry a verb, but like English it is followed by a clause containing a conditional.