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Emanuel B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

viste...se viste

Shouldn't it be se viste instead of viste?

Asked 5 years ago

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Meghan Y.B2Kwiziq community member

¿Dónde quieres comer cuando salgamos esta noche?In order to use salgamos wouldn't querer need to be in the future -querrás? At least that is what I thought according to the lesson, but the choices in the question only gave answers using quieres so I didn't know how to apply the lesson to this question.

Asked 7 years ago

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Johan V.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

¿Dónde ________ una floristería, pro favor? To this question you have given the answer as “hay”. I have studied the lesson again but can’t agree.

The question does not enquire about the existence of a florist but the location. Therefore according to the lesson explanation the answer should be “Donde está”. Please point me to the part of the lesson I have not understood.

Asked 7 years ago

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Ricky M.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Pointing and "over there"

1. Could you remember these exclusively as occasions in which you are pointing at something?

2. What about using "over there" when you refer to another country?

Gracias, Ricky

Asked 7 years ago

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molly d.A1Kwiziq community member

¿quiere usted?

¿Señor Hernandez, ________ otra copa de vino?

I answered "quiere usted" and was marked wrong. It's ok, isn't it?

Asked 5 years ago

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Jim K.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Using 'a donde' vs 'adonde'

I used 'a donde' as on of three possible answers, but was marked wrong:

IMPORTANT

For the long forms adónde and adonde, it is also perfectly acceptable to write them as two separate words:

adonde = a dondeadónde = a dónde

For example:

Iremos adonde/a donde tú quieras.¿Adónde/a dónde vas?

Asked 5 years ago

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Rick N.A2Kwiziq community member

The "United States" in Spanish7Ellos ________ en Estados Unidos el verano pasado.They were in the USA last summer.(HINT: Conjugate "estar" in El Pretérito Indefinido)
I think "the U.S." should be translated as "los EE. UU.", not "EE. UU". I think in Britain, people often call the United States "United States", but in Spanish it would be better to say "los Estados Unidos".

Asked 4 years ago

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Mieke v.A2Kwiziq community member

Where can I learn more about when to use Había and when to use Hubo?I know había is imperfecto and hubo is pretérito, but in this context it seems not always applicable. Is there a clear distinction?

Asked 8 years ago

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Harold R.Kwiziq community member

reflexive verbs

I have a question about reflexive verbs. In general I understand the concept, and I in general I know when to recognize the verbs. What I have trouble with is knowing when to use them in a sentence. For example take these two sentence:

I walk in the morning. Camino por la mañana.
I bathe in the morning. Me baño por la mañana.

Now I use the Google translate app and one of these sentences uses a reflexive verb and its pronoun and one does not. I don't understand the difference. I understand "I bathe myself in the morning" is how the translation would be from Spanish to English. But why does "I walk in the morning" not translate as "I walk myself in the morning". After all I'm not walking the dog or walking somebody else, I'm walking myself. Or is this just a matter of the Google translate app being incorrect??

Asked 4 years ago

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Jonathan B.C1Kwiziq community member

Vowel changes You say in the lesson that "the first vowel -e- in the stem becomes ie" but you choose as one example a verb (recomendar) where in fact it is the second -e- that changes. Maybe a slight rewording?

Asked 7 years ago

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