Foxed and Flummoxed

[Alan Reynolds]

:confused:
Una pregunta, por favor: ¿Qué significa la frase, 'Ve yendo tu y ahora cuando termine de vestirme voy yo.'?
Is it, 'I see you going/leaving and now when I finish [in subjunctive] dressing myself I (will) go.'
I can't 'get' this one at all.

[Ben]

It means "You go on ahead and when I've finished getting dressed I'll catch you up/come too"

[Legazpi]

:confused:
Una pregunta, por favor: ¿Qué significa la frase, 'Ve yendo tu y ahora cuando termine de vestirme voy yo.'?
Is it, 'I see you going/leaving and now when I finish [in subjunctive] dressing myself I (will) go.'
I can't 'get' this one at all.

Ve yendo = you go first/you go ahead

So the phrase is something like:

You go ahead and I'll go right after I finish getting dressed.

[lazarus1907]

'I see you going/leaving and now when I finish [in subjunctive] dressing myself I (will) go.'
I can't 'get' this one at all.

The "tú" form of the imperative of the verbs "ver" and "ir" are the same, but here they are using "ir". The construction <ir + gerund> is used to indicate an action that it is gradually developing or advancing, and here it is used in imperative:

Ve leyéndote eso = Start/go on reading that

[Alan Reynolds]

Ben, Legazpi and lazarus1907,

Many thanks to you all for helping me understand this. I appreciate learning both what this means and what is going on; i.e., what parts of speech are doing what here.

Onwards and upwards,

Alan