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5,821 questions • 9,537 answers • 954,165 learners
Hi,
How do I use estados unidos with todo?
¿Me pongo un café por favor? Could I get a coffee please?
¿Me pones un café por favor? Could you get me a coffee please?
I don't understand ¿Por dónde vas? because the translation isn't good English. Do you mean 'where are you?' or 'where are you up to?' (in a book) or 'How far up the road have you got?'
Or perhaps 'where are you at?' is modern usage that I've just never heard before.
Hello, I am not clear why “estaba” is used (imperfecto) but all the other verbs are in the pretérito tense. I have read all the lessons on this subject but still nearly always get the tense wrong. I think the guidance is that the pretérito is used when there is a specific beginning and end - but is that not the case with “mucha gente no estaba de acuerdo”? Many thanks, Tony
I was recently given this sentence:
Eugenia (entender) ______ que no podamos ir.
I got it correct and know the form of "entender" to be used, but I have a side question: Why is "podamos" in the subjunctive here? Why not the indicative?
It might be worth mentioning in Kwiziq's lesson Ya sea/ya fuera... o... to express whether... or... - [number 8284] that verbs [usually?] take the subjunctive when they are governed directly by "ya sea (que)..."
Doesn't it depend on what the speaker wants to express, whether a subjunctive or indicative of sonar would be used here? Wouldn't "Cuando suena" (indicative) also be a valid way to put it, if the speaker thinks about the event as actually happening?
Because if so, I wouldn't know which answer to pick in the quiz, because they were presented as alternatives.
Thank you!
Would you explain why it is el hacha afilada, but it is una ave bonita, please. Both have feminine modifiers. I’m becoming more confused as I go.
Here’s an explanation that I found elsewhere:
“Feminine nouns that begin with a stressed "a-" or "ha-" sound in Spanish use the definite article "el" in the singular."
The example given is:
"Who's incredibly attractive; a real night owl. Sí, pero indica que no es un ave de paso.”
The above example uses un, not una.
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