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Mark G.B2KwizIQ community member

Indirect object pronouns

Hi. Why is the indirect object pronoun used in for example. “Le encanta la peli” When in English the the phrase “She loves the film” suggests the use of the Direct object pronoun. As in the “The film delights her.”

Asked 5 years ago

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britt D.A1KwizIQ community member

ACABA IS TO FINISH?

Asked 7 years ago

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Ryan S.A0KwizIQ community member

Non specified gender

I’m the examples “that is an umbrella” and “I have an idea” where there is no clear gender established is it acceptable to use either un or una?

Asked 4 years ago

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Patricia T.C1KwizIQ community member

Me molesta que veas a ese chico

why is this not accepted as correct when A mí me molesta.... is?

Asked 4 years ago

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S. I.A2KwizIQ community member

Example : Ella trae la tarta para tu fiesta de cumpleaños. She's bringing the cake for your birthday party.

Why is it "trae" and not "está trayendo"?

Asked 6 years ago

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pippy M.B2KwizIQ community member

Why no matching direct pronoun?

I don't understand the first example:

Lo he visto a él primero, y después a ella.

I understand the 'lo' to match the 'a él', but why doesn't the 'a ella' have a corresponding 'la'?

thanks

Asked 6 years ago

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Jim K.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Confusing Examples...

In the lesson "Use Hace + length of time + que + El Indefinido " we have this example:

-¿Dónde está Jaime? -Hace dos horas que se fue.
-Where is Jaime? -He left two hours ago.

In the lesson "When to use the perfect tense versus the simple past in European Spanish (Perfecto vs Indefinido)" we have this example:

Note: If you talk about time ago using hace then the tense will still depend on whether the event in question was 'today' or another day:

Lo he visto hace 2 minutos.
I saw him two minutes ago.

Are they both correct? It they are, that tells me that when using "Hace + length of time + que + El Indefinido", we could either of these?

Jim Kurczewski

Asked 6 years ago

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Nicole P.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Looking up"Tanto" I found it has many parts of speech. Which are they here? I believe they are adverbs. (interestingly they can be many, many things!)

Asked 7 years ago

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Clara M.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

El Condicional Simple-Decir

Buenas tardes,

I hope you don’t mind me asking this here since my question is not regarding Decir in the Condicional Simple but rather the usage of ‘eso mismo’ attached to the quiz question here.

I am puzzled by the following:

“Yo diría eso mismo”.

Could you explain the ‘eso’ here please? Could I still use ‘lo mismo’ or ‘el mismo’ here instead of ‘eso’?

Asked 7 years ago

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