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I have gotten confused by a specific use of the personal a. As I understand it, if you are mentioning a person or group of people, you need a personal a infront of the person. For example if I am talking about a reporter mentioning Juan, I might say El reportero mencionó a Juan. It also looks like if I want to say that the reporter mentioned Juan to Ana, I should say El reportero mencionó Juan a Ana.
Is this correct? Is this also a general pattern - i.e. when I would normally use a personal a, but there is an indirect object (Ana), should I always drop the personal a and use the a for the indirect object?
Thanks
Is Deberías habermélo dicho equivalent to Habemélo dicho?
Is Podrías habermélo dicho equivalent to Habemélo dicho?
Is Habrías habermélo dicho also correct?
"Mis padres se animaron con la visita de mis sobrinos." I don't understand why this is animarse. They aren't cheering themselves up, they're being cheered up by the visit of mis sobrinos.
In an A2 test the answer to "We gave the boys some sandwiches." was "nosotros dimos a los niños unos bocadillos".
I´m still learning indirect object pronouns, why doesn't this have "les" before dimos?
After reading the recommended lesson at Spanish verbs Llevar vs Llevarse (pronominal verbs) [Lesson 9495; then look at: 'Getting along with people'] I am puzzled as to why the pronominal form of llevar was not permitted here: namely "Nos llevamos juntos tanto tiempo".
These tickets for the tennis match are cheap. : ___ entradas para el partido de tenis son baratas.
The key word here to me is "These". The answer of "Estas entradas" is marked as wrong and should be "Las" -- which would be "The tickets for ..."
This looks like a mistake to me.
It seems I have considerable confusion over when to use a definite/indefinite article before a noun. I know it is needed when using gustar (e.g., me gusta el chocolate), but I have confusion in other contexts. For example, for the prompt "you need to have strong legs", I wrote necesitas tener las piernas fuertes, but the correct answer was "necesitas tener piernas fuertes" --- without the article. What's the rule on this?
My other confusion appears to be with the use of possessives. The prompt was "I'm going to exercise my muscles". I wrote voy a ejercitar los músculos but the correct answer was "voy a ejercitar mis músculos". It seems I'm confusing the rule of not using the possessive adjective as is required in such phrases as "My head is hurting" --- "Me duelo la cabeza" , or "I raise my hand" -- "Me levanto la mano". Please help me to know the difference for when I can (have) to use the possessive adjective versus when it is not used.
Thank you and I look forward to some clarity (finally) on these two issues.
Regards,
Pati Ecuamiga
My question is about the quiz item: "El niño rubio con pantalones cortos es mi hermano."
Why was the article "los" not used before pantalones cortos? [e.g., El niño con los pantalones cortos es mi hermano.] An extension of my question here is that sometimes I notice a definite article is inserted while other times it is not. Therefore, what is the rule for using definite articles (los/las) in sentences of this type.
Saludos,
Pati E.
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