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Meilin E.A1Kwiziq community member

Hacer meaning to travel???This question suggested conjugate Hacer but the tranlation said 'travel' I don't understand why we would use hacemos instead of viajamos in that context? We would never say 'we do (or make) 200 to get to work' in English and I can't find any suggestion online that hacer is used to describe travel but perhaps it is a quirky Spanish anomaly? Thanks for your help to understand this one :)
Marta y yo ________ 200 km a la semana para ir a trabajar.
Marta and I travel 200 km a week to go to work.(HINT: Conjugate "hacer" in El Presente)

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Iris R.B2Kwiziq community member

El origen del turrón

In the video, the second sentence sounded to me like ´los deportistas griegos..´ But in the text it says ´los deportistas ciegos´. Since it talked about las Olimpiadas, would ´griegos´more likely be what the narrator said?

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Garry M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

muy interesante, pero cómo viajar a melallin?

definitivamente vale la pena si visite españa. Hay aeropuerto

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Garry M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

why skip the literary translation?

"dentro del seno de una familia catolica, (etc)" = within the bosom of a catholic family. Why pare down the literary parts to just the basic meaning of "to a catholic family (etc)"? The "dentro del seno" seems to indicate that he was born into a loving, caring family (O.K. plus wealthy and traditional!). But when we read Cervantes and Shakespeare aren't those literary embellishments what made them classics?

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Clara M.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

'You' singular or plural?

I really enjoyed this passage, it even made me a little teary-eyed! The sentiment is lovely.

I just wanted to check...

Should the first sentence be using vosotros, i.e. Me recordáis a mi abuela, porque es que brilláis con luz propia como ella.

Maybe I'm missing something but isn't the rest of the passage referring to two people?

Gracias de antemano 😊

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Ron K W.A1Kwiziq community member

Ustedes eres

I gave the answer Ustedes son they said it was incorect and should have been ustedes eres

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Dee J.C1Kwiziq community member

Era/fue question

Hi Kwiziq experts,

In the phrase "Lo que más me gustó de la gastronomía local fue deleitarme con..." I wrote "Lo que más me gustó de la gastronomía local ERA deleitarme con..." I was marked wrong and corrected "era DELEITARSE con" and I'm not sure why that is. Is it down to whether one uses fue or era in the sentence?

Many thanks

Dee

Asked 3 years ago

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C. S.B2Kwiziq community member

"tu espalda te va a dar" In this sentence, why is "tu espalda" used, whereas in one of the lessons, whereas in this lesson the definitive article is used. Using definite articles el, la, los, las in Spanish with bodyparts and clothing (Artículo definido)%252Fsearch%253Fs%253Dbody%2526model%253Dgrammar

Also, would "va a darte" also be correct?

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D. H.C1Kwiziq community member

Si nosotros hubiésemos caminado menos, ________ de hambre. If we had walked less, we wouldn't have died of hunger. (HINT: Conjugate "morir" in El Cond

This grading of this question appears to be an error on the part of Progress. Conditional Perfect is the answer specified, which is "no habríamos muerto" and is the answer that I provided The answer from Progress is given as "no hubiéramos muerto" and is Preterito Plumamperfecto Subjuntivo, not Condicional Perfecto.

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