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Hola,
This seems to translate as "in order to read it [to myself]." Is there a reason why both direct and indirect objects are used, and the direct object is not sufficient - i.e. leerlo??
Saludos
John
Finding this lesson on Kwiziq has proved a real revelation for me! I've been learning Spanish for the last 3-4 years through online courses geared toward Latin American Spanish and wasn't aware of this difference. I've always been aware of some regional vocabulary differences but, since I've geared my learning toward Peninsular Spanish (which I need), I'm now finding quite a few grammatical differences too. I had seen the perfect used in this way in El País articles and books etc but I'd not been able to find any resource that actually explained it... until now!
Could you answer how specific times might influence choose of tense?
I spoke to him at 3am this morning
His flight left at 6pm today
These specific times seem to indicate start and finish times. Do they point toward preterite?
flit ?
Flirt !
Hi!
I was wondering if there is a mistake here in calling these "interrogative pronouns" searches come up as these being "adverbs". Is there something I'm missing?
Thank you.
It would greatly enhance your course and the use thereof if you included the same “Play All” feature for all the examples given at the end of each of your approximately 600 lessons.
This is an excellent lesson. Very clearly explained.
I understand the idea of using the imperfect to picture what is happening in the moment. But there is another tense for this as well. I forget the name of it, so I will just use an example.
"La profesora abría la puerta."
"La profesora estaba abriendo la puerta."
Would the choice between these two tenses be up to the speaker, or would there be a grammatical rule that tells us which one to use?
Thanks.
In the examples using past actions in the main clause, either the pretérito imperfecto or the pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo are used. However, in the explanation it says the pretérito indefinido or the plusucmaperfecto.
I think it would be very helpful if you gave the literal translations of sentences as well as the conversational translation. I have been assigning wrong meanings to words...
Me pediste perdón.You apologised to me.
Is there a separate word for "apologise" ?
Hi,
Kwizbot Desde allí arriba, podíamos ver toda Barcelona.
You could also say: De ahí arriba, podíamos ver todo Barcelona
My question:
Can you use both “todo” and “toda” here, and if so, why?
Also could you say “ver todo a Barcelona”?
Thank you, Nicole
In the reflexive pronoun chart in this lesson I think you should also include se to be used for yourself (singular formal) and also yourselves (plural formal).
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