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    Default mandar/enviar

    Te envié un email.
    Te mandé un email.

    Are they the same? Is one better than the other? Is there a tendency to use enviar with things (Te envié flores) and mandar with people (Lo mandé para recoger el paquete)? Or are they pretty much interchangeable?

    I do realize that mandar has other definitions. I'm only asking to compare the two verbs in terms of the definition "to send".

    Gracias de antemano.

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    Default Re: mandar/enviar

    There is no semantic difference. I think there may be a slight difference in register since enviar sounds a little (very little indeed) more formal than mandar but I can't think of a context where the difference could be point out.
    Last edited by clarab; 08-29-2010 at 05:25 PM.

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    Default Re: mandar/enviar

    Thanks, Clarab. Your answer is very helpful.
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    Default Re: mandar/enviar

    I agree with Clarab.
    But I wouldn't use mandar in an e-mail or a letter because enviar is more formal, and I prefer it. But people do use it - mandar - and I use it too in the spoken language. (Peninsular Spanish).
    I suppose it's a matter of taste.

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