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Hi!
I think if the English was restructured for a few of the examples, the distinction between haber/tener would be clearer. Essentially the past participle would be moved towards the end of the sentence while placing the object after have/has.
For example: You have two rooms painted. Marta and I have a trip to Egypt planned.
Thanks!
"And the experience was horrible" "
Ya ha sido una experiencia horrorosa"
Why did we use "Perfecto" instead of "Imperfecto"? I'm so confused!
And also "El camping estaba muy sucio"
Can't we use "Era" here ???
Hi,
I got the following question in a test:
Tuvimos muy buenas experiencias en ________ juventud.
We had very good experiences in our youth.
(HINT: Choose the right word having in mind the ending of the noun)
The two possible answers were twice "nuestra", but one of them is marked wrong when chosen.
You should probably add this to the brainmap - I could only locate this by manually searching through the library
This is from a recent Kwiz. I chose hacen instead of están. When I was looking at the English clue in the parentheses, it sounded "past tense " to me. That is not the case as están is a present tense verb. What is going on here?
Like Alan, I was puzzled by the use of the subjunctive in some of your examples, particularly this one:
"Coge un par de plátanos, los que estén más maduros" - because to me it seemed that the speaker had indeed noticed that some of the bananas were riper than others. Maybe it makes sense, though, if s/he had not yet seen them - but in this latter case s/he would probably have said: "Coge un par de plátanos, preferentemente dos que estén más maduros" - [is that correct?]
I can understand the use of the subjunctive when it is referring to the future - e.g., your sentence-example which begins: Quienes lleguen… [because it is not yet known who will reach the top first].
The correct answer is dónde not donde and I really don't understand why. Luis is telling a fact from the past. There is no question or doubt or anything about where he went. Why 'dónde'?
Kwizbot: y el código de vestimenta dice que
I: y dice el código de vestimenta que
How much less preferable is my response to Kwibot's here?
Hello,
In the lesson el profesor pronounces 'quiere' "yiere", is this normal for European Spanish? Normally I expect a fairly strong "q" sound?
Thanks
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