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Gabor E.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

¿En qué estaría pensando cuando lo hizo? - does the concional imply past here?

I translate this with "what would she be thinking when she made it", is that correct? What confuses me a bit is that "estaría" is used to describe events in the past but it is present here. This is still just a 'condicional simple', correct?

Elsewhere I found an example where "¿Qué estaría pensando ella?" is being translated with "what was she thinking?" Again, the past seems to be implied here.

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Shirley S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

En is missing after pensado?Tengo pensado un buen plan para la fiesta sorpresa de Javi." means:

I have thought OF a good plan. Is En for OF, missing?

Thanks

Shirley

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Nimue ..A1KwizIQ community member

No se puede viajar a ese país hasta que ________ seguro.

I don't understand why this sentence is translated as ... ('we' can't travel). Wouldn't it be podemos for *we* ? I thought *puede* was singular for he/her/it

I also don't understand why the answer is *sea* and not *se*

Can someone please explain.

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Shirley S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Change title of lesson

A suggestion, add “Cuando plus subjunctive” to the title. It would be easier to search for a lesson on when to use the subj with cuando.

Shirley.

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Goo S.A2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

why not pluralEl museo ________ esculturas antiguas.The museum replicates ancient sculptures.(HINT: Conjugate "reproducir" in El Presente) I thought museo to be a they but the answer has it as it.How do you a noun that is not a person be it or they. business school . Maybe if plural then they.

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Larry C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Possible error in text

Why does árabe have two accent marks?

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Graeme R.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Conocer el éxito

This seems like a useful phrase! A few questions...

• How common is it in Spanish?

• I guess we could just as easily use nouns like 'fracaso', 'dificultad' etc?

• It's similar to 'meet with success' in English of course, but would it be totally wrong to use 'con' in Spanish?

• And, does the noun usually carry the article? (conoce el éxito)

Saludos

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ama s.C1KwizIQ community member

Using numbers as pronounsWith the question ¿Cuántas alumnas aprobaron el examen? why is the answer ciento cincuenta and not agreeing in any way with the fact that they are alumnas and not alumnos (as per the following example)?

¿Cuántas personas acudieron a la manifestación? -Trescientas.How many people attended the demonstration? -Three hundred.

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Thea R.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

tense of verb

In the example ' Segun lo que me dijo Manuel, todo parecia ir bien' the verb is translated in the present tense. Isn't 'parecia' the imperfect?

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Giles M.B1KwizIQ community member

First on the list....

The test asked me for the correct verb to use with the sentence "Tu ***** la primero de la lista" - this seemed to be a temporary thing, so I chose "estas". The right answer was "eres" - i.e. a permanent state.

I am confused - can anyone explain why use ser rather than estar in this case?

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