Spanish language Q&A Forum

thank you for this article. I learned many new things.

I was doing one of the writing exercises and the sentence given was, "I decided to wait and see if a car passed by to call for help." I figured the translation of "passed by" would be "pasera" (past subjunctive), but the answer given was "pasaba." Why wouldn't we need to use subjunctive here since it's uncertain whether a car will actually pass by?

When to use tanto and when to use tan in tan/to...como ??

elija las construcciones que mejor se adapten a contexto de la frase: (ir a +infinitivo,pensar +infinitivo, presente, futuro)

1.te Lo juro - siempre ........... a tu lado, incluso dentro de 30 años.

2.Qué........ el viernes, porque no veo que tengas ningún plan concreto.

3.qué edad crees que tiene la sra. nowakowa? creo que .......... unos 45, pero no estoy seguro.

4. en julio .............. a la playa con toda la familia, ya hemos reservado una casa de campo y comprado los biletes.

I am referring to Latin American Spanish vs. Castilian:

Is "Hasta ahora" used for the same purpose?  If so, is it common/ colloquial to use it? 

How would it be written? Hasta ahora pinté 2 cuartos? (He pintado / pintados ??) 

Thank you 

Hi, I'm really struggling with this one, and there are only two possibilities!  It's "Aquí tienes 20 euro por si……. dinero para un taxi.", with the options of necesitas and necesitaras. The questions says that the speaker thinks there's a low probability of the money being needed.  The correct answer is the imperfect subjunctive, necesitaras.  I suppose that it has to be that because the present indicative is not permissible in this structure, but I don’t know why.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Hello Kwiziq team, 

In this translation exercise, would using the verb llevar in the following sentence make sense? ''Tercero, llevaré menos tiempo en mi teléfono.'' instead of ''Tercero, pasaré menos tiempo en mi teléfono'' 

Many thanks

I'm assuming that before using this form the paragraph would start out using a tense that would ground the event in the past.  Thus I'm assuming you would not start out saying "Martina se llevará una gran sorpresa al ver de nuevo a su madre".  You'd instead start out with saying ""Martina pensaba que su madre había fallecido" or something else that signals we're talking about the past.  Is this right?