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Alexander B.A2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Exclamativos con quién

¡Hola!

I would like to pay your attention to the following constructions:

Quién + iba a/podía/podría + infinitivo de pensar, suponer... + que (+ sujeto) + iba a + infinitivo/condicional/imperfecto de indicativo (+sujeto)

Examples taken from GRAMÁTICA DE USO DEL ESPAÑOL: Teoría y practica C1 - C2 by Luis Aragonés y Ramón Palencia. Unidad 27

¡Quién podía pensar que Lorenzo tenía dos hijas!

¡Quién podría pensar que la empresa tenía pérdidas!

Could you tell me whether the mentioned examples refer to the Present and past tenses are used because of Concordancia de Tiempos or to the Past?

If they refer to the Past, is it possible to use Pesente and Pluscuamperfecto in the second part to express different periods of time?

Regards,

Alexander

Asked 6 years ago

William C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

General questionIf I want to translate "The weather here in Scotland is very unpredictable" into Spanish. Can I place "aquí en Escocia" between the subject and its verb. El clima "aquí en Escocia'" es muy impredecible.

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EZGI T.A2KwizIQ community member

todo estados unidos

Hi,

How do I use estados unidos with todo?

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Goya K.A1KwizIQ community member

Using "Hay" & "Está" to talk about the weather

Foggy and sunny are both adjectives so why does one use hay and one use está?

Hay niebla

Está soleado,

Gracias

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Lisa D.B1KwizIQ community member

masculine and feminine forms of nationalities

how do I learn which nationalities have different masculine and feminine forms and which do not?

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H. L.C1KwizIQ community member

Hello! Is there supposed to be a play button in this exercise?

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JonathanK X.C1KwizIQ community member

Tanto mujeres como hombres...

Is there a rule that explains why the definite articles aren’t needed here even though mujeres and hombres are the subjects of the sentence?

Asked 5 years ago

Michael A.A1KwizIQ community member

The confusion in understanding these "Nasty" lo, la, los, las, le, les,se

Buenos Dias,

Please, help to understand, once for all, these "nasty" Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns:

Ex: Laura se lo compro = Laura bought it for her. Can also be Laura bought it for him? How can we make the difference? Also, the English sentence can be translated in Spanis like "Laura se la compro?" Thanks for help, Michael Aldea.

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Alan D.B2KwizIQ community member

Would it be right to say "unas cuatro libras" - "about 4 pounds"

Asked 7 years ago

ama s.C1KwizIQ community member

Commands with preposition "a"

The question (with no other information provided) is "Drive safely!. One of the options is "Conducir con cuidado".There is another lesson on Requests / Commands / instructions where if I have got it right the infinitive is used without the preopisiton "a".. Why doies it not work in this instance?

Asked 4 years ago

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