Spanish language Q&A Forum

Your example is:

Ellos proveyeron de alimentos a los damnificados.
They provided food to the victims.

Where does the 'de' come from here?

For this lesson, would it be correct to say that you generally conjugate the verbs ending in "ar" to "aba" (e.g. hablar becomes hablaba) and that you conjugate verbs ending in "er" and "ir" to "ía" (e.g. soler becomes solía)?

The answer to ‘they were about to finish their exam’ is given as ‘Han estado a punto de...’   

there’s no sense that this is the situation of ‘but something intervened’, and it doesn’t feel like a natural ‘perfecto’ tense to me, more just an action in the past. So I’m wondering why the perfecto was chosen here?

Hello,

 A couple of questions: 

1. How to tell when to use an article in cases like this: 

Kwizbot     Mañana vamos a ir a la Sierra de Atapuerca. 
You            Mañana vamos a ir a Sierra de Atupuerca.

2.  Why  “there” does not translate to “allá”

and many people travel there

Kwizbot     y muchas personas viajan a este lugar 
You            y muchas personas viajan allá

The answer is ‘los’ but since the construction is ‘ver a’ and the prepositions are already used for the names, I don’t see why it is not the indirect object pronoun ‘les’ required. 

Are the three connectives synonymous or is there a slight difference in their meaning?