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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].
In Spanish the word Pachamama is their way of telling if it's a masculine or feminine word.
I noticed a few mistakes here in this lesson. In some areas, for the "tu", "ellas/ellos", and "nosotros/nosotras" forms of "acaber" there are double "ba" syllables. For example, there's "acababas" instead of "acabas", "acababan" instead of "acaban", and "acababamos" instead of "acabamos". I've double checked elsewhere to verify the correct spellings of these forms and nowhere else did I find the double "ba" syllables.
Como ves, mamá sabía que si ellos comían de ese fruto, pensarían que ya no la necesitaban.
Hola Inma!
Es correcto o no usar SI + PRETÉRITO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO DE SUBJUNTIVO + FUTURO SIMPLE / CONDICIONAL SIMPLE como en la siguiente oración:
Si el próximo jueves no hubiera / hubiese llegado el paquete, reclamaremos / reclamaríamos a la oficina de Correos.
Gracias,
Miltcho
Could you differentiate the usage of tras rather than después (de) in daily use please?
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?
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?
Can this also be translated as: Va (usted) a salir a comprar pan esta mañana? If not why not?
I don't understand why instead you'd use: Usted sale a comprar pan esta mañana?
Thanks, Lia
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
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