Passives with "estar"During the translation process, these possible answers were displayed:
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The best answer is:
La prosperidad es representada por el buey [> thus, my answer "está representada" was marked wrong]
You could also say:
La prosperidad es representada con el buey,
Or also:
La prosperidad es simbolizada por el buey,
Or also:
La bonanza está representada con el buey,
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It seemed to me that this particular passive construction focussed on the *result* rather than the action, so I used "estar"... It is interesting that you do allow the use of an "estar" passive with "bonanza", but not with the others; (is there therefore something different about the word "bonanza"?)
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However, in the opening sentence: "El año chino es representado cada año con un animal", I think I can see how in this particular sentence we are focussing on the action (rather than the result).
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We discussed this point in the Q&A of Forming the Spanish passive voice with ser + participle (+ por) (passive - simple tenses) - and I mentioned it again in Forming the Spanish passive voice with ser + participle (+ por) (passive - simple tenses)
What are the verb endings in this tense? Although it is noted that the verb stem is the same as in the future tense, I do not find a list of the verb endings anywhere.
During the translation process, these possible answers were displayed:
>
The best answer is:
La prosperidad es representada por el buey [> thus, my answer "está representada" was marked wrong]
You could also say:
La prosperidad es representada con el buey,
Or also:
La prosperidad es simbolizada por el buey,
Or also:
La bonanza está representada con el buey,
- . - . - . -
It seemed to me that this particular passive construction focussed on the *result* rather than the action, so I used "estar"... It is interesting that you do allow the use of an "estar" passive with "bonanza", but not with the others; (is there therefore something different about the word "bonanza"?)
- . - . - . -
However, in the opening sentence: "El año chino es representado cada año con un animal", I think I can see how in this particular sentence we are focussing on the action (rather than the result).
- . - . - . -
We discussed this point in the Q&A of Forming the Spanish passive voice with ser + participle (+ por) (passive - simple tenses) - and I mentioned it again in Forming the Spanish passive voice with ser + participle (+ por) (passive - simple tenses)
Oh, si la vida fuera tan simple y perfecta...
The lesson seems clear on when to use the article in a date, but questions don't make it clear which is called for. That needs to be cleaned up...........
According to my dictionary, the word órgano is masculine, but the text has "una órgano."
¿Porqué es "su primer crucero" en vez de "sus"? Viajeros es plural, si?
"In Spanish, nouns can be preceded by numbers." Can the numbers be other places?
If they can would you give examples. Sounds like all the numbers are invariable if below 199. 200 and above agree with noun that it is in front of. And the agreement goes with the hundreds.
100 when it becomes 101 the word for 100 becomes Ciento Is it only ciento when working with nouns. Say in general counting ciento also. People are talking about a cienta. Maybe does not happen.
Do we have link to learn about numbers?
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