How to Say ‘Have you been here long?’ in Spain Spanish
¿Llevas mucho tiempo aquí?
YEH-bahs MOO-choh TYEM-poh ah-KEE
[YEH-bahs MOO-choh TYEM-poh ah-KEE]
💬 Usage Tip: To ask how long someone has been somewhere, Spanish uses llevar "to carry" plus a length of time. So llevo dos años aquí means "I've been here two years".
Phrase Breakdown
¿Llevas mucho tiempo
YEH-bahs MOO-choh TYEM-poh
Have you been (for) a long time
'Llevar + time' means 'to have been somewhere for a while'. The 'll' sounds like the English 'y': YEH-bahs. 'Tiempo' is TYEM-poh.
¿Llevas mucho tiempo esperando?
Have you been waiting long?
Words in this phrase
Llevas
[YEH-bahs]
you have been (spending time)
From 'llevar'; with a time expression it means how long you have been somewhere or doing something.
Llevas dos horas esperando.
You've been waiting for two hours.
mucho
[MOO-choh]
much / a lot of
Used before uncountable nouns or singular ideas to mean a large amount.
No necesito mucho para este trayecto corto.
I do not need much for this short trip.
tiempo
[TYEM-poh]
time
Refers to the time someone spent with you, often in a professional context.
Tu tiempo en el evento fue muy valioso para mí.
Your time at the event was very valuable to me.
aquí?
ah-KEE
here?
The stress falls on the last syllable: ah-KEE. Raise your intonation at the end for the question.
¿Trabajas aquí?
Do you work here?
Words in this phrase
aquí
[ah-KEE]
here
Adverb meaning 'here,' referring to this place or event.
'Aquí' hay muchas oportunidades para hacer contactos.
Here there are many opportunities to make contacts.
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