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.
Forgive me. The lesson explains this very clearly, but I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the idea that there is absolutely no difference in meaning at all between the use of el indicativo and el subjuntivo with quizá and tal vez. I had read elsewhere a lengthy discussion about how these two always triggered the subjunctive and a lo mejor always used the indicative. Most examples I've encountered seem to reflect this. I'm struggling to reconcile this seemingly conflicting information...
rofl. Roberto: El conquistador a Angela!
such a clear, beautiful soprano voice and a beautiful, blending chorus of young angels . . .
una voz de soprano tan clara y hermosa y un coro de ángeles jóvenes tan hermoso... .
I cannot find a word to add "blending" into the Spanish.
HELP?
In the answer, the first sentence is future tense, but the second sentence is conditional tense? What is going on? Why are not both these sentences either future or conditional?
should be benéfico
also wrong in the list of vocabulary at the beginning
"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.
What are the differences in usage/nuance between con lo cual vs. conque?
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Hola Inma,
The translation of the above is given as “Come up here without stepping on the white floor tiles.” This sounds like an imperative, so would it be one of the appropriate conjugations ¡Ve/Vea! etc? Or is it a typo?
Saludos. John
What is "el halda"? The only definition in my dictionary is skirt or sackcloth, and it is listed as feminine, not masculine.
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