Cuando llamas a tu mamá por su nombre
A2 Spanish listening practice · Rioplatense Spanish · Curated for beginners
How do “vos” verb endings work in Argentine Spanish?
In the Río de la Plata, tú is replaced by vos, and its verb endings shift the stress to the final syllable. So “open your mouth” is abrí la boca (not abre), “you tell me” is me decís (not me dices), and there’s no irregular stem-change — vos forms are flat and regular. Once your ear locks onto that end-stress, Argentine speech suddenly parses.
Affirmative vos imperatives simply drop the -r of the infinitive and accent the end: abrir → abrí, mirar → mirá, comer → comé, venir → vení. Present tense follows the same end-stress pattern: vos tenés, vos querés, vos sos. The clip’s punchline — a child correcting “a mí me decís mamá” (you call ME mamá) — is itself pure voseo.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.