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Joseph A.A1Kwiziq community member

Tú te peinas todos los días. You comb your hair every day. How come we do not use the word pelo in spanish for this instance?

Asked 7 years ago

Emanuel B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Lleva vs. está

Is lleva interchangeable with está and what is the difference between the two? Thank you

Asked 6 years ago

Ron B.A1Kwiziq community member

estar en Mexico DF

Why does Mexico DF mean Mexico City ?

Asked 4 years ago

Catriona T.B2Kwiziq community member

AccentsPlease explain the rules for accents in Spanish -- not just written accents, but we also need to know which is the stressed syllable in a word without written accents that we have not heard before. This is very confusing because most explanations I have seen elsewhere only describe rules for written accents in terms of the variation from the usual norms for pronunciation but that is not helpful if we don't know what the norm is.

Asked 8 years ago

Kent W.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of definite articles before a country name“Tú debes viajar a la India.” Is it correct to have a definite article in this sentence? “You must travel to THE India?”

Asked 4 years ago

Johan V.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Is there a lesson for the rules on Spanish accents and if not why not?

My understanding was that the accent falls on the penultimate syllable unless another syllable is accented. Given that where does the accent fall on “peinar”? Is it not split into pe in ar?

Asked 6 years ago

Clara M.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

¿‘Se puede’ o no ‘se puede’?

Hola a todos,

No hay muchas carreteras ________ conducir despacio. There are not many roads where one can drive slowly.HINT: ¿Dónde or donde?
Although the required answer here is ‘donde’, I instinctively want to write ‘donde se puede’. So it’s ok to leave out the ‘se puede’= ‘one can’ and just use the infinitive, in this instance ‘conducir’? I appreciate that this quiz is only to determine whether to use ‘donde’ or ‘dónde’ but it just read oddly to me.
Gracias :)

Asked 6 years ago

Ian B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Weird translation of proponer un brindis"Nos gustaría proponer un brindis" means:We don't want to make a toast.We wanted to make a toast.We like making a toast.We would like to make a toast.

We wouldn't say "We would like to make a toast". Best English would be direct translation: "We would like to propose a toast"

We might say: "Let's make a toast" but "we would like to make a toast" is not natural English.

Asked 6 years ago

Melvin P.A2Kwiziq community member

«¿Qué es eso?»

Hello!

In the example, ¿"Una iglesia"? ¿Qué es eso?, why is it eso and not esa?

Asked 5 years ago

Meltem O.C1Kwiziq community member

Estar vs Sentir vs SentirseIn the same exercise, I translated "he wouldn't have felt so afraid" as "no se habría sentido tan asustado" but again it was corrected as "no habría estado tan asustado" and "no habría sentido tanto miedo". In the explanation pages for sentir and sentirse, we are told that we should use adj/adv with sentirse because it is about how one feels and with sentir noun should be used because it is about what you feel. I preferred to use sentirse+adj. I am confused why the version I used not accepted.

Asked 5 years ago

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