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When translating to a passive sentence, why is it "se come paella" and not "se comen paella", when people is a plural noun?
When a feminine singular noun starts with a vowel (or vowel sound) do we still use 'la' (or 'una'), or is there a rule similar to that in English for a / an?
It is possible, I believe, to form a [sort of?] passive with 'estar' - is it? … Do you have an exercise on that? (perhaps highlighting comparisons with the 'ser' passive).
Es imposible ________ todo a la primera. It is impossible to understand everything at the first time.hi - I saw this question and thought ‘ es impossible’ would trigger the subjunctive, but the answer was the infinitive. If I click ‘explain this’ it takes me to the subjunctive page, which has ‘es imposible que’ - is the ‘que’ the only thing making it subjunctive then?
I was just reading over the questions, and wondered about this one:
"with some adjectives like mucho/mucha, hambre would take the feminine form (mucha hambre). It works the same way as the word "agua": (el agua caliente, but mucha agua caliente)"
Is there a rule and lesson that covers this? It certainly is a curious phenomena.
Nicole
For example: We were in Brazil with friends could easily also use estabamos, if it were the setting for when something happened:
Estábamos en Brasil con amigos cuando ella murió
La semana pasada, estuvimos en Brasil con amigos
Hi there, I love the summer too, but I'll need a little help with the word "Allá" please.
One of the answers given in this test was "y suelo ir allá mucho", the suggestes lesson for this part of the quiz was aqui, ahi & alli, but not sign of allá... I'm wondering if allá is so far away we can't even see it :-)
Please would you help?
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