Spanish language Q&A Forum

Your English original is: "the tango is one of the most sensual dances that exists in the world". During the course of the exercise, I felt that "exists" should really be plural, so I put "existen" in my translation answer - and that was accepted as correct. However, your final Spanish version still makes it singular.

RE: Chupachups (B2) Spanish writing exercise

Sentence:  and about 800 lollipops were produced a day.

Kwizbot: y se producían unos 800 chupachups al día.

Is there any other way this sentence could be constructed, and if so, what, and if not, why not? And what are the rules pertaining to this. 

I know that Spanish is pretty flexible, where I get tangled up, is where it’s not flexible in sentence structure.  i.e. what things are “verboten”?  Thank you, I appreciate any help in this area.

An example given in the lesson Dejar vs Dejarse suggests the following:

Dejad que os explique mis planes = Let me explain my plans to you

Firstly, I guess subjunctive is being used here because it adds an extra level of politeness to this request? 

However, if I was asked to translate this from English to Spanish I would probably use the indicative: Déjame explicarte mis planes.

So, is my translation wrong? Or is it, let's say, simply less refined? If so, would my translation be quite acceptable if I was talking to a close friend for instance? 

Saludos

and consists of a wooden box,

Kwizbot           y está formada por una caja de madera,
You                 y consiste en una caja de madera,

I read the lesson attached to this, but was wondering if the verb "consistar" can ever be used in this context, and if so/or not?

why and how would it be used?

Thank you. 

Thank you!

Hola todos, 

Hoping you are all well.

I have 2 questions on this exercise:

that broke the monotony of black and white.

1-) re: que rompía la monotonía del blanco y negro.

I wrote: "del negro y blanco." 

Could you tell me why the Spanish inverts the adjectives. (I even checked with Reverso and they translated it the same way.

2) re: and people liked it.

Kwizbot           y a la gente le gustaba.
You                  y le gustaba a la gente.

Don't know why this particular arrangement would be the only one possible? 

Thank you.

Nicole

Se me ha olvidado la llave.  Does the lesson apply to this usage also?

In the sentence 'Les amenecé seriamente' I don't understand why the indirect object pronoun 'Les' is used. I would have thought it would have been a direct object pronoun ie 'Los' or 'Las'. Are 'they' not the direct object of the threatening? I seem to often have a problem with this. It's ok when it's a straightforward 'I gave the present TO her' for example where it is quite clear but in sentences like the one above I get very confused as it often seems the indirect object pronoun is used. Any advice greatly appreciated.