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Past tenses are confusing and these lessons do not have enough of an explainer.  In this Idefinite Past, I see:

Ella hizo una tarta para mi cumpleaños.She made a cake for my birthday.

But, under the Present Perfect lesson, I see:

He hecho un pastel de chocolate.I made a chocolate cake.

There is not enough information to distinguish between the two forms. I do not see the difference.  "I made a cake" and "she made a cake" are identical in format, yet different.  If both answers are correct- after all, there are often several ways to say the same thing, I think that needs to be reflected here if that is the case.

Can you explain?

Estoy seguro de que cuando abriste esta tienda, no pensaste que llegaría el día en el que un cliente te daría un billete de mil dólares.

Despues de "no pensaba que" o "no pense que". Condicional o imperfecto de subjuntivo?

Regarding the hints in the tests. Sometimes the hint says to conjugate in "El pretérito Perfecto Compuesto" and other times just "El pretérito Perfecto". If I enter El pretérito Perfecto simple it's incorrect. The study buttons take you to the same lesson, and seem to be asking for the same answer, am I missing something?

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just want to thank you for all the free material. literally any grammar question i have is somewhere on this site. I've been using it silently for 2 years now

In a test, I got the question "Yo _____ mis manos en el agua". The verb was sumergir. Is it more correct to say "mis manos" here than "las manos" and if so, why? Are there certain verbs you are more likely to or would always use the possessive rather than definite?

Hello,

It may be helpful to add "sobrante" as well as "enrollar" to the words to look up.

Thanks,

Kaly

In the explanatory pop-up for "Como se prepara una tortilla de patatas:" https://spanish.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/expressing-instructions-and-general-statements-with-the-impersonal-se-one. 

I'll spend some time on this exercise because I find these uses of "se" to be very interesting.

Also this was my first encounter with "echa/echan." There does not appear to be a lesson dedicate to its conjugation, but there is this which seems to be sufficient: https://spanish.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/expressing-instructions-and-general-statements-with-the-impersonal-se-one.

My amiga de Oaxaca pointed out that in Spain they tend to use "lo" in this expression but in Mexico it's "la." Just sayin'!