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Fill in the blank with the doler verb that best completes each sentence: A mí _____ _______ los brazos.
I’m sorry this is the worst lesson I’ve found on this site. I’ve read it several times and still don’t know which to use in conversations or writing
Hi Can you please explain why - "I don't know if I will see him again" is not subjunctive, because it is all so uncertain.
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brenda
One of the test questions was about the word order for this phrase and the following is considered incorrect: Por favor Marta, les trae unas copas de vino. Based on this lesson, I thought that the indirect object pronoun (les) could be placed before or after the imperative (i.e. traéles or les trae). Can you please explain the difference?
Why is yo me sumerjo los manos wrong here ?
I have a question about the sentence: "Le dare el dinero que le debo por si acaso se me olivida despues." If I understand, this sentence expresses the idea that the speaker feels that it is fairly likely that they will forget. If they thought that it was unlikely that they would forget, then the conditional clause would say "..se me olvidara". So myy question is: What if the main clause were in el preterito indefinido (Le di el dinero...)? Would the conditional clause still need to be "...se me olvidara"? If the speaker considers the condition in the subordinate clause to be less probable, the conditional clause would use the imperfecto do subjunctivo (...se me olividara) whether the main clause refers to a future action or a past action? Is this correct?Sorry, I don't know how to type accents.
Why is this sentence: Yo he llegado pronto a trabajar esta tarde? Translated as “I arrived early to work this morning” and not “I have arrived early to work this morning”? The present perfect tense includes the use of have correct?
A great poem in Spanish which should be enjoyed in Spanish. While the translation gives lots of new vocab (with poetic license) the true enjoyment is in the flow of Spanish and not in the clumsiness of an English translation!
But the concept of the subjunctive is different in English and is little understood by most anglófonos. For example:
Te di el dinero para que me dejaras en paz. - In the English subjunctive form "I gave you the money so that you should leave me alone."
Whereas to use "would leave me alone" should be in the conditional: "Te di el dinero para que me dejarías en paz.
Or are the two subjunctive concepts interpreted "differently" ?
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