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Just a reminder that " sé" is also the affirmative imperative form of "ser" for "tú".
Ex: ¡Sé muy lista!
(Hope to save people having to look it up.)
I was wondering what this sentence would be in LatAm:
Juan y tú _tenéis_______ los ojos verdes.Juan and you have green eyes.HINT: Conjugate "tener" in El PresenteWould it be: "tienen" for the plural use of "you all"Thank you. Nicole
Why can't I use Ustedes - 'ven'
"Ahora casi todo es digital, es muy inmediato, cómodo, y ahorras mucho tiempol; ." Why didn't the structure continue with the conjugation in the third person singular? es digital; es muy inmediato; ....it is digital, it ismore immediat then:- it saves a lot of time. The "s" at the end of "ahorras" is not very distinct and logic would seem to demand that the last part would be "It saves a lot of time" rather than " You save a lot of time" (in the second person familiar form)
Why was this marked wrong?
¿De dónde ________usted? - Yo soy de Venezuela.Where are you from? - I am from Venezuela.(HINT: Use verb "to be")I selected "eres" and it was marked as incorrect. The correct answer is "es." How should I have know they expected a third person answer?
¿Cuál es el porcentaje de sal? ??
Es al menos 5 por ciento puro. ??
Hay al menos un 5 por ciento de impurezas. ??
Why is le used? Isn't the same pronoun used as in conocer (lo)?
Like Ian, I am confused by some of the examples given here, in particular:
Iremos adonde tú quieras, cariño >> We will go where (to whichever restaurant) you want, darling...
... which does involve movement, but despite that it uses 'donde' - with no accent !
And in the short quiz included in this site, I got this question wrong:
We are taking the children to where they can run around freely > Llevamos a los niños ________ puedan corretear libremente…. i.e., I [incorrectly !] chose "adónde" with an accent because it did seem to involve movement … (but no ! - it had to be "adonde").
Hello,
I am confused. I am trying to sort out the diffences but I don't see it.
For example, in the sentences: both mean: It is good that you study every afternoon.
Es bueno que estudies todas las tardes.
Está bien que estudies todas las tardes.
Es + bueno [adjective]
Está + bien [adverb]
Can you show the relationships for each?
Any difference at all in the individual meaning?
And why would you use one over the other? And under what circumstances?
Any other lessons to clarify this?
As you can tell, I’m confused! Help. J
[A comment, not really a question]: It is interesting that you are using the infinitive construction here after "recomendar": "...nos han recomendado poner suelo de madera"; (instead, I put: "han recomendado que pongamos suelo de madera"). My grammar book (by Butt and Benjamin - admittedly an oldish, 2004 edition) discusses the well known rule: "Use the subjunctive when there is a change of subject between the two portions of the sentence" - and it lists verbs which are exceptions. 'Recomendar' is not actually given as a clear-cut exception, but the book says that this verb is in a transitional state - where the infinitive construction is "slowly creeping into" written Spanish. It adds that it would be better for non-Spaniards to stick with the subjunctive in these particular circumstances, just to be sure..... I am sure you do have a lesson on this specific point; I look forward to seeing what it says about various verbs.
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