Isn't it Preterite followed by Imperfect in Indicative?I understand the main point of the lesson, how the subjunctive adds conditional inference to the sentences.
However, I'm confused with your first example sentences. Isn't it generally the case that in simultaneous past actions in the indicative the preterite is usually followed by imperfect? For instance.......
Mientras ella reñía a su hija, nosotras mirábamos hacia otro lado
Shouldn't that be.......
Mientras ella riñó a su hija, nosotras mirábamos hacia otro lado
Your examples don't seem to follow that rule. Is it perhaps because 'mientras' occurs at the start of the sentence, but in this one it occurs in the middle......
Los niños jugaron en el parque mientras los adultos nos tomábamos un café y charlábamos.
Saludos
Hi there, I have (belatedly) discovered Notebooks and am finding these a great way to test myself across different levels and hone in on my weak points. I've added a load of lessons, but it feels like it's focussing very much on the higher level (B2) ones. I want to interleave my practice with my weak points from A2 and B1 too.
Question: how does it decide which lessons to test from a notebook? Is it random? Or based on your current %? Or something else?
Also, I'd LOVE a feature where it just quizzes you from your weakest lessons *of those you have already been quizzed on*, across all levels. Basically that's what I'm trying to achieve.
"la agencia" is singular. So why "tienen" coches. What not "tiene". Is this just the (poor) way people speak? For example they refer to a team as "they" instead of "it"?
Which tenses do these 3 forms represent? I suppose one is the usual conditional tense
“I am confused when " preterito " is appended to most of the tenses. This practice is not widely used in Spain or Latin countries. Why not use the tenses which are commonly used. I know that the preterite is used for past tense so when preterito perfecto subjuntivo is mentioned I expect that the past subjunctive is meant NOT the perfect subjunctive! I wonder whether other participants experience the same problem.“ In school, we never learned the English equivalents of these various subjunctive terms. We didn’t really learn much about the subjunctive in English at all. It was a whole new concept beginning to learn it in Spanish. How is it taught to Spanish speaking children? Do they find it confusing?
Like23 years agoShareHola Inma,
Is there a reason why the construction “llegar a conocerse” doesn’t work in this context?
I felt that the text “get to know each other” required something that would capture the process over time [llegar a], rather than simply the reflexive verb [conocerse], or is it simpler than that? Saludos. John
customer: quiero un café.
me: qué tamaño?
customer: pequeño por favor.
(the coffee shop in question has creative names for its sizes, so I often hold up a cup to clarify. :p)
me, holding up a small cup: cómo esto?
my understanding is that since the phrase "like this?" doesn't contain a noun after "this," then "esto" should be used. but technically we've been talking about "el tamaño," so is "este" correct instead? I've never been able to find something explain this exact scenario. 😅
I understand the main point of the lesson, how the subjunctive adds conditional inference to the sentences.
However, I'm confused with your first example sentences. Isn't it generally the case that in simultaneous past actions in the indicative the preterite is usually followed by imperfect? For instance.......
Mientras ella reñía a su hija, nosotras mirábamos hacia otro lado
Shouldn't that be.......
Mientras ella riñó a su hija, nosotras mirábamos hacia otro lado
Your examples don't seem to follow that rule. Is it perhaps because 'mientras' occurs at the start of the sentence, but in this one it occurs in the middle......
Los niños jugaron en el parque mientras los adultos nos tomábamos un café y charlábamos.
Saludos
In the same way that galesa in the first example is equivalent to "Welsh," perhaps Esta torera es cordobesa is more equivalent to "This bullfighter (female) is Cordoban."
Under the listening practises, there are some being read by a male speaker but is the accent of this male speaker from Spain? it seems like he has an unique accent that is unidentifiable.
What kind of accent is he having, may i ask?
And i have tried to post questions directly under the exercises but wont able to and received an error code 500.
Is there a lesson or a table on conjugating these? Especially Traer could use some illumination in this regard, I don't recall seeing the kinds of conjugation as shown in the examples for traer. Thanks.
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