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In the exercise, I translated 'so he was getting a little nervous' as 'así que se estaba poniendo un poco nervioso' but Kwizbot corrected it as 'así que se fue poniendo un poco nervioso'. In the explanation pages we are told that these two constructions are interchnageable but ir+gerund is more emphatic. So why was mine corrected? Is it wrong grammatically or does it sound absurd?
1. "Los históricos" seems to be an example of an adjective used as a noun? - [a feature of Spanish which may have been encouraged by its prevalence in Arabic, perhaps?]
2. I actually typed in "Las históricas" - because I thought that it was referring to las "estadísticas", and thus had to be feminine ?
Hello,
In reading one of your lessons on Prepositions, I saw "fiarse de" i.e: fiarse de algo, Roberto, etc.
I was surprised that "de" is used here and not "a" for a person, or "en".
1) Could you help me understand why "de" is used here?
and:
2) Can these forms be used and if so, what would they mean? and if not, why not?
fiarse en algo
fiarse a algo
Thank you,
Nicole
Hi. Studying this lesson reminded me that I searched on your site lessons that would help with sentence building, and how that is done in Spanish (above the usual introduction to making sentence.) I could not find any despite several difference search words. I also looked through the grammar, but saw no heading for that subject.
So could you point me in the right direction:
1- How to make sentences and their correct /various word order, and how interchangeable /or not the word order is, on a more advanced level than : subject, verb, object.
2- And also how the same meaning can be conveyed in different ways.
Thank you. Nicole
1) I wrote "quince" instead of "15". This was regarded wrong but I think it should be accepted.
2) From the way the text is read, it is not always easy to discern it it is followed by a comma or a point.
3) It was not possible to get the spanish inverted exclamation sign by pressing long on the exclamation sign?
This has al and del appearing right next each other. How does that work?
I'm still confused by the use of "ser" and "estar" for different ideas related to location. Is this pair of sentences correct?
El entierro es en el cementerio de su pueblo. El cementerio está fuera del pueblo.
Are there other examples besides just these? I have a Spanish dictionary that says that the word "internet" can be either feminine or masculine, with both "la internet" and "el internet" being correct. Could you provide any other words that do the same besides just the few that are provided in the lesson?
John and you have green eyes.
"Juan y tu _______ los ojos verdes.
I chose "teneis" since "you and Peter" would be more correctly as "You (plural sense) and not "they", which kwizbot marked as "they". Why? Thanks
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