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Hola,
En esta frase, donde usamos el indicativo en vez del subjuntivo- ‘Te llamé porque necesitaba ayuda’, ¿No necesitamos usar el adjetivo posesivo ‘tu’? La ‘ayuda’ podría ser ‘tu ayuda’ o ‘su ayuda’ ¿no? La traducción en inglés dice ‘I called you because I needed ‘your’ help.
Gracias
Esta lectura generaliza en exceso sobre los pueblos indígenas de Latinoamérica y sus creencias. Vale la pena mencionar que el Día de Pachamama es celebrado en solo ciertas partes de América del Sur, no en todo Latinoamérica, y sólo por ciertos grupos indígenas, no todos. Como menciona esta lectura, Pachamama es una diosa inca y de por sí su fiesta se celebra en los países donde viven las comunidades indígenas de ascendencia inca, es decir, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador y Perú. Hay otras comunidades indígenas no-incas que viven en los países arriba mencionados que no veneran a Pachamama y más allá de eso, hay otros países latinoamericanos en América del Sur, Centroamérica y América del Norte donde desconocen la tradición de Pachamama.
Una frase incial más apropiada para esta lectura sería, "El Día de Pachamama fue celebrado hace escasos días en *algunos* pueblos indígenas de *Sudamérica*".
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?
I notice that Spanish often inserts el/la where English doesn't. Like "como la observación, la intuición y la lógica." whereas in English one writes "like observation, tuition, and logic."
Is there a rule for this?
how do I learn which nationalities have different masculine and feminine forms and which do not?
Hi Inma
Thanks for your quick response.
By extension can I also combine nunca and tampoco in the same sentence as shown below
Ella no pudo nunca entender tampoco la pregunta.
Ella no pudo entender nunca tampoco la pregunta.
Ella no pudo entender nunca la pregunta tampoco.
Ella nunca pudo entender la pregunta tampoco.
Una pared de mi habitacion es rosa. I thought that walls and rosas had to agree in number? Adjective agrees with the noun in number?? I am new at this, so sorry if it sounds very elementary.
Thank you.
Hola Inma,
For the last sentence of this passage, for my translation, I wrote, ¡Qué baile tan bonito! It was however marked as incorrect. Please could you explain why that is?
Gracias.
I see quite some time has been devoted to this subject. The first time I read the hairdresser example, the English struck me as quite wrong. I would add my two cents as follows:
If I went to the hairdresser, I'd spend a lot of money or If I went (had gone) to the hairdresser, I would have spent a lot of money.
Those seem to me to be the simplest way to correct it because one can't correctly say I would spent.
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Hi,
I find I have a very difficult time trying to differentiate the various terms used on your site for verb tenses and what their equivalents are either in Latin American Spanish and/or English. Especially in the "test your knowledge" section. Every time I have to search and search for the English equivalent to make sure I have the right tense being asked for.
I looked for a list of them on your site and couldn't find any . Where do I find this or could you please furnish one with their ( Latin American - if possible) English equivalents.
My 501 verbs doesn't the same titles for tenses as you have. For example: Your: Preterito Perfecto , is Perfecto de Indicativo in my dict;, Your Preterito Indefinido is Preterito in mine.
Help:(
Nicole
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