Knowing how to write with you or with you is something very important, much more than it seems, since it is only written in one way and it can make you look ridiculous if you do it the wrong way.
Due to the proliferation of misspellings and poor pronunciation of words, it often happens that terms are confused and words end up being spelled the wrong way. In the case of with you or with you, it happens exactly like this, since one of the two ways of writing it has been wrongly popularized, since only one way of doing it is correct.
When we manage to write all the words of the Spanish language well, we will have become language geniuses, geniuses whose prose is legendary and worthy of the great elitist clubs and Miguel de Cervantes himself.
However, if you make serious misspellings such as not knowing how to write this word, you can look bad in front of a large number of people, who will accuse you of being a jerk, ignorant and even consider you illiterate. It has happened to all of us at some time that we have misspelled a word or phrase and have been ridiculed by another person.
The good thing is that there are always tricks to know how to write a word, if it is written all together or if it is written separately. Among so many words that sound similar in the Spanish language, having certain tricks to know how to write a certain phrase or expression is always good, since it is like a kind of cheat sheet to learn how to write a certain word or phrase.
Today I am going to teach you how to write, if it is written all together, that is, with you, or if it is written separately, that is, with you. Today we will see more in depth how to write these words correctly.
Instructions to write with you or with you
- With you: The first word of the two that we are going to see is with you, that is, written all together. To define both meanings, we will always go to look at the Royal Academy of the Spanish language, better known by its initials RAE. According to the RAE, the word with you is accepted as a personal pronoun (remember the tu ti te contigo) which means next to you, that is, it means that you are next to another person (second person singular). This expression is often used to talk to another person in the second person, since for example it is much better to say I am with you than I am with Pedro (first name in the second person does not look good, it looks good in the third). At the moment this is the only form in which this word is allowed, since as we are going to see now, the word with you does not exist.
- With you: The phrase with you does not exist, at least for now. The RAE updates its dictionary from time to time and often adds misspelled words because many people use them. Due to the large number of misspellings in our country, I do not rule out that the RAE decides to include this word in its dictionary, since it would not be the first time that it includes a word that was not said that way before but that it has ended up doing so that the people do not get confused or by popular pressure. It cannot exist with you because they are two words, being composed of the preposition with and with the word tigo, which means absolutely nothing today (although it could fit perfectly as a given name of someone from the East).
- Trick to avoid mistakes: This is the trick that I use to avoid mistakes when knowing how to spell this word. I don’t really use the trick, since from so much reading and writing, I write the word with you all together, without having to think, however, I always keep the trick up my sleeve just in case. The trick is to think of the pronouns tu ti te contigo and the word contigo and the word congo. With me, with you and I get are written all together because they are pronouns, not phrases, if they were written separately, we would have a preposition and a proper name, so it would not make any sense (for example, if you say I want to marry you, you are not saying that you want to marry the person next to you, but you want to marry someone called you). Use this trick to avoid mistakes and you will never misspell this word again. The same thing happens with the word with me or with me, since separately they would mean a preposition plus an absurd proper name and together they would mean a pronoun. Think of pronouns every time you hear one of these three words and remember that if they go separately the meaning of the phrase does not make any sense, so always keep this in mind.