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Why is ustedes used sometimes for singular subjects?
For example, Ustedes hacen una tarta de chocolate deliciosa. - is translated you make... It seems to me it should be: Usted hago una tarta de chocolate deliciosa.
What am I missing?
In today's translation exercise - "Something’s not right in my new home" - I had to scratch my head really hard to understand why the phrase "objetos que no estaban donde los había dejado" had rendered "donde" without a tilde on the 'o'... Yes, it is a relative clause - but here, the 'connecting link-word' is "que" rather than "donde" > (" ... objects [which were] not where I had left them").
Initially, I thought I should be able to compare it with sentences structured round the verb "saber", for example:
"No sé dónde lo guardé"
and
"No sé dónde viven" -
[sentences given in my dictionary and grammar book].
Está rica esta cancion. Es de pura poesía. O sea que no entiendo todas las palabras; pero siento con Clarissa la alegria de la banda y la que la cantante expresa. Esta cancion me eleva.
ha participado en numerosas producciones españolas que le han convertido en famosa
I put la han hecho famosa as the structure seems like a transitive verb but was marked wrong.
Is that because of using hacer or is it leismo
Gracias
Couldn't you also express the last sentence like this?:
Será un día estupendo!
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
Claude-3.5-Sonnet dice que
"They may want a higher salary"
puede traducirse como
"Quizás querrían un salario más alto".
El bot dice que el condicional da un matiz más tentativo o hipotético que el subjuntivo y suena más cortés o diplomático. ¿Qué opinas?
But correct answer is "...and can be unstable" (the weather') y puede
SER variable / cambiante / inestable. (I put puede estar variable)
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