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cómo
how
Used to ask about or express the way something happens.
Encoding Strategies:
repetition
Cómo means how and describes the manner in which something happens.
cómo
how (in what way)
When you want to know how something is, or how it happens.
- ¿Cómo estás? = How are you?
- No sé cómo lo hizo = I don't know how he did it
why, how come
When you ask how something happened, you're essentially asking why it happened.
- ¿Cómo es que no viniste a la fiesta? = Why didn't you come to the party?
- ¿Cómo no me dijiste nada? = How come you didn't tell me anything?
how (exclamation)
When the way something is done catches your attention, you react to it by pointing it out.
- ¡Cómo baila esa chica! = How that girl dances!
- ¡Cómo llueve hoy! = How it's raining today!
what?, sorry?, come again?
Literally asking 'how?' in response to something.
- Renuncié a mi trabajo hoy. — ¿Cómo? = I quit my job today. — What? (how is that possible?)
- ¿Cómo? No te oigo bien = Sorry? I can't hear you well (how did you say that?)