Spanish language Q&A Forum

The question was to fill the missing word (the hint was only that heredero is masculine):

The Heir to the crown ....

______ heredero de la corona

I answered "El" and was told it is incorrect, it should have been "Un". This seems wrong?

Me gustaria saber mas sobre el uso del verbo ECHAR. Hay muchas oraciones con este verbo en el articulo. Gracias!

the answer is using las tartas que son...

"Lo hago por ti" implies

"I do it for your sake, because of you and for you, altogether".

"Lo hago para ti"

suggests nothing about the true motivation,

which may well lay outside the addressee;

it only designates ti 'you' as the destination of the "doing". 

I have found this in:

"Delbecque - Towards a cognitive account of the use of the prepositions por and para in Spanish 1996".

This, I hope, might explain why 

"sacrificios por sus hijos"

is prefered to

"sacrificios para sus hijos".

In both cases hijos are the recipients, but the attitude toward the recipients seem to matter.

Google search gives 88,500 hits to "sacrificios por sus hijos"

and 39 to "sacrificios para sus hijos",

suggesting that "para" is a very poor (ungramatical?) choice here.

I wonder if the English translation is incorrect (specifically, the "to go"), because the Spanish sentence has no "ir" in it. Instead, there is "saltar" which the English does not seem to consider.

The "this may be closer to latin amercian spanish" warning came up in this exercise, for a part of the text given as a hint!

"A las cuatro, tengo entrenamiento de fútbol."

In the text above, it says, 'no parará de reír.'

But in the exercise it was corrected to 'reirse'

Which is correct?

“Como”can be written with and without accent, it depends on whether it has a interrogative or comparative function.