Spanish language Q&A Forum

edith E posted one year ago

Why is “I feel like an idiot dressed up like a clown” reflexive? Idiot is a noun. I had this question on a quiz. 

I had difficulty with the use of sentir/sentirse

Thank you Marcus G C1 for this "When you have como+noun, use the refexive.  

Nos sentimos como dos idiotas después de la estafa."  we felt foolish after the scam; foolish being an adjective

I was so confused 

after looking at Spanish dictionary I decided that the use of como un idiota translates to foolish - an adjective, even though un idiota is a noun

Eres un idiota - you are an idiot  (noun)

Estás actuando como un idiota - you are being ridiculous (adjective)

Maybe start by listing the days of the week. None of the examples  given mention Thursday.

Is se tardaron correct as well as the agent in the sentence below is unknown and you had written an identical example sentence using se tardaron

I thought Inperative was the same as commands! How do they differ in usage and form?

Hi do use the same as month for year? ¿En qué año estamos? Estamos en 1988.

And weekends and seasons? Estamos a fin de semana. or Estamos al fin de semana.

Thank you

I have been noticing if I repeat an exercise more than a few times, my score is always 0 even though I can see that I am getting a mix of correct and incorrect answers.  Is there a way to address this?  Thank you! 

why does dar conjugate the preterite as an "ir"verb

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Hi. As I have been learning the difference between imperfecto and indefinido, I have come to understand that imperfecto could be expressed as "used to " and indefinido as "-ed". So comer would be comia hongos (I used to eat mushrooms, imperfecto) or comi (I ate mushrooms, indefinido). 

This description of habia vs hubo seems to be the opposite: habia (imperfecto) is what I would think of as "There used to be... ", whereas hubo (indefinido) would be "There was". So I would think it'd be something like this: 

Habia muchos ninos en el parque - shouldn't this be like "There used to be a lot of kids at the park"? Definately a completed thing. 

Hubo muchos ninos en el parque - shouldn't this be like "There were a lot of kids at the park"? Who knows if it's a completed thing. 

But this lesson has it backwards, like "Habia" is - "There were..." and "Hubo" is "There used to be..." 

So I'm confused. I'm understanding the completed actions vs incomplete actions, but this lesson feels backwards. Can you please help me understand where I have it wrong? I've read many of your responses, and I'm not understanding where I'm off. 

Thanks.

Jeff