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He visto = present perfect that is not finish still in today continuing. Why in above translate do say to as mean that saw that is v2??
doesn't that mean: they? not are YOU coming to dinner?
I learned naranja as the fruit and anaranjado/a as the color. Obviously language can be used differently throughout the Spanish-speaking communities! Is that the case here?
I got this sentence in a quiz
No puedo ver _____ en la muchedumbre.
The answer was "a Paula y Cristina".
I notice that sometimes you put an a before every name, like "a Paula y a Cristina". Is this optional, or are there certain circumstances when the a is required before each person?
There was a sentence in the lesson:
Dime cuál te gusta más.
Tell me which one you like the most.
Wouldn't this translate to
Tell me which one you like more. ?
How would you say the correct sentences in Spanish to translate more and the most?
Also, why do speakers of Spanish have a difficult time when learning the comparative and superlative forms in English? It's like they don't realize they exist in Spanish too.
Why do you say "votar por" and not "para", since the person you vote for benefits?
I'm having trouble understanding this answer in a study plan test. Could you please explain.
Ella estaba lavándose el pelo cuando él llegó.
She was washing her hair when he arrived.
When it is combined with another action that interrupts the ongoing action at that time. The interrupting action is generally in the simple past (see the last example where the ongoing action "She was washing her hair" was interrupted by another sudden action "he arrived”.
Te ________ hasta que me aburrí y me fui.
I was waiting for you until I got bored and left.
era esperando
estaba esperando-----my answer
estuve esperando------correct Kwiziq answer
fui esperando
To me, it seems that the waiting was interrupted by "got bored and left."
I [incorrectly] made "mejor" plural - to agree with "they" - by writing: "Eran aún mejores que en mis sueños". [Or could it also be correct with "mejores"?]
Perhaps we have to regard "mejor" as an adverb here, not as an adjective - so we should not make it plural - despite the fact that (in English) it looks like a complement of the verb "eran".
My grammar book (by Butt and Benjamin) seems to confirm that^ by giving the example "Aquí estamos mejor" = "We're better [off] here".
It seems that we need to be careful in deciding whether a particular word in Spanish should be treated as an adverb rather than an adjective. In particular, we should avoid the temptation of trying to judge it according to its grammatical context in English. [A well known example of that, is of course "Está bien"].
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