por v. para 4"Lo hago por ti" implies
"I do it for your sake, because of you and for you, altogether".
"Lo hago para ti"
suggests nothing about the true motivation,
which may well lay outside the addressee;
it only designates ti 'you' as the destination of the "doing".
I have found this in:
"Delbecque - Towards a cognitive account of the use of the prepositions por and para in Spanish 1996".
This, I hope, might explain why
"sacrificios por sus hijos"
is prefered to
"sacrificios para sus hijos".
In both cases hijos are the recipients, but the attitude toward the recipients seem to matter.
Google search gives 88,500 hits to "sacrificios por sus hijos"
and 39 to "sacrificios para sus hijos",
suggesting that "para" is a very poor (ungramatical?) choice here.
Please explain on what basis cuándo is correct here and not cuando. This looks to me like a perfectly straightforward statement of fact. No one is asking a question. In fact, this sentence is an answer to a question such as, "When will you see him again?"
The question was to say "You like Marbella". How could the correct answer be "Me gusta Marbella." Your answer is incorrect.
What is "el halda"? The only definition in my dictionary is skirt or sackcloth, and it is listed as feminine, not masculine.
Seems like I have seen hacer used in sentences like this. For example. El hizo re hipotecar la casa. Is this correct? Possible?
What an explosion of vocabulary! Does the average hispanohablante use such an extensive vocab? Really good audio. thanks again, I enjoy every one of them . . .
In the text above, it says, 'no parará de reír.'
But in the exercise it was corrected to 'reirse'
Which is correct?
"Lo hago por ti" implies
"I do it for your sake, because of you and for you, altogether".
"Lo hago para ti"
suggests nothing about the true motivation,
which may well lay outside the addressee;
it only designates ti 'you' as the destination of the "doing".
I have found this in:
"Delbecque - Towards a cognitive account of the use of the prepositions por and para in Spanish 1996".
This, I hope, might explain why
"sacrificios por sus hijos"
is prefered to
"sacrificios para sus hijos".
In both cases hijos are the recipients, but the attitude toward the recipients seem to matter.
Google search gives 88,500 hits to "sacrificios por sus hijos"
and 39 to "sacrificios para sus hijos",
suggesting that "para" is a very poor (ungramatical?) choice here.
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