When movement is involved - adónde / adonde ? In Question 5 of the Test I have just completed, we had to translate: "She came near to where I was sitting" by inserting the correct word in the gap here: "Ella se acercó ________ yo estaba sentada". It did look to me as if movement was involved, so I chose "... adónde …" [plus the others which carried the accent] … But I was wrong !
Admittedly, when I clicked on "Explain this", I noticed this example:
Iremos adonde tú quieras, cariño >> We will go where (to whichever restaurant) you want, darling...
... which also involves movement, but despite that it uses 'donde' - with no accent !
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This is another one incorrectly graded. My answer was criáis, which is the correct Vosotros translation, yet is marked wrong.
This lesson has answered my question of a few minutes ago.
Mi madre no piensa que yo vaya a terminar el curso de fotografía.My mother does not think I will be able to finish the photography course.
“…vaya a terminar..” means …going to finish…” It does not mean “…be able to finish…” but, hey, I may be translating too literal?
So ¿cómo está? is an incorrect answer for a child?
Don't remember ever hearing that one, only that it is okay to use the informal version with them.
Also you site is jumping past questions when I give the answer to a previous question, I know I should notice but your site shouldn't do that either.
It's happened a couple of time and I think I've done well on a test only to find out I didn't answer a couple of the questions.
Also there are drop downs that don't show some of the answer and lo and behold one of them is apparently the correct answer, which only confuses me because I end up picking the best sounding incorrect answer.
How is recién different from ya? Are they interchangeable?
What exercises could i do to practice this?
So, pura vida is used instead of hola or cómo estás? How would one translate pura vida in a casual conversation? As "hello", "how are you" or as "awesome" or something else?
Can you please add the audio pronunciation :)
To say sth is protected, are está and es interchangeable or is one preferred than the other?
In Question 5 of the Test I have just completed, we had to translate: "She came near to where I was sitting" by inserting the correct word in the gap here: "Ella se acercó ________ yo estaba sentada". It did look to me as if movement was involved, so I chose "... adónde …" [plus the others which carried the accent] … But I was wrong !
Admittedly, when I clicked on "Explain this", I noticed this example:
Iremos adonde tú quieras, cariño >> We will go where (to whichever restaurant) you want, darling...
... which also involves movement, but despite that it uses 'donde' - with no accent !
[This topic has been answered above -
Thank You Inma ! ]
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