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why is "pretérito perfecto" translated as "present perfect"?
"Preterite" means past tense, ¿verdad?
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This is a great lesson; thank you. I was told that I could use "mucho" after "Me gusta ...", for example, Me gusta mucho la música clásica. Is that correct? But, that I cannot use "Me encanta mucho..." Is that correct Could I express the idea of "really" loving something/doing something by repeating the verb, for example, "Me encanta encanta la música clásica?" Thank you.
Hola,
I took the full-in-the-blanks quiz "Asando Castañas" today and one of the blanks, where I should choose between El Subjunctivo Presente and El Indicativo Presente, was the following:
muchas personas se suman a ella con tal de pasar un buen rato,hasta que ______ (llega/llegue) el amanecer.
Apparently the correct answer was El Indicativo (llega not llegue), but I don't understand why. Isn't sunrise a future event that is yet to happen and therefore the sentence requires El Subjunctivo?
Thanks as always!
Deborah
Instead of está tumbada, I wrote está acostada. I've seen tumbarse used more in literature, but are there any others differences between these two that determined your choice in this instance?
Likewise with al mismo tiempo que, I wrote mientras instead.
These 2 were not given as alternative answers
Saludos a todos
My question is really a b1/b2 question, but I can't find where to put it.
if one doesn't know if something exists, isn't "haya" (subjunctive) more correct?
eg ¿Haya un piscina cerca de aquí?
o or ó for “or” in Spanish?
Hi,
Little confused.. I read in the examples:
Mi hijo mayor (my eldest son)
Su hermana menor (her younger sister)
How would 'my older son' (not 'eldest') (context: moving from the youngest to the middle of three sons in age) be said?
How older be different from eldest in these expressions? I know about 'el mejor' or 'el mayor', but I don't see that back here.
At first I wanted to translate as "la marca está conocida como La Leyenda del Vino" - because to me it seemed to emphasise the result rather than the process. Not too long ago, we discussed this at https://progress.lawlessspanish.com/questions/view/alternative-passive-with-estar (where Inma gave a very useful explanation)... and I remembered that [in that other lesson] I had tried to apply the rule [also with "conocido"] - incorrectly using "estar". So here, I changed my mind and made it "la marca es conocida" [despite emphasising the result?] - and was right. Perhaps there is something about "conocido", cautioning us about interpreting a process as a result?
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