Preterite of "-e#ir" verbs: the 3rd person e>i change almost seems to be the norm
Hola Ana, Silvia, e Inma -
In your lesson Conjugate stem-changing-ir verbs (e > i) in the preterite tense in Spanish (El Pretérito Indefinido) - I am wondering if it might be worth mentioning that the guideline applies to the majority of verbs ending with "-e#ir" - because most of them seem to change the 'e' to 'i' in the 3rd person "pretérito indefinido" [where the # symbol denotes a consonant, or two consonants together, or even no consonant as with 'reír'] >
> i.e., almost all of them follow the pattern "servir > sirvió, sirvieron"...
... and seguir > siguió, siguieron [note that 'gu' is effectively just a consonant with its silent u]
I have come across only a few exceptions to that^ rule:
namely, the three "-cer.nir" verbs: discernir, concernir, cernir(se)... the three "-ergir" ones: sumergir, convergir, divergir... and hendir - [e.g., the third person preterite becomes él discer.nió - not discirnió].
There are also one or two [?] defective verbs which behave like that^, for example 'ellos agredieron' (they attacked), not 'agridieron'.
Saludos, David Mc
wouldn't "on the other hand" be a better translation for: por otro lado?
Hola Ana, Silvia, e Inma -
In your lesson Conjugate stem-changing-ir verbs (e > i) in the preterite tense in Spanish (El Pretérito Indefinido) - I am wondering if it might be worth mentioning that the guideline applies to the majority of verbs ending with "-e#ir" - because most of them seem to change the 'e' to 'i' in the 3rd person "pretérito indefinido" [where the # symbol denotes a consonant, or two consonants together, or even no consonant as with 'reír'] >
> i.e., almost all of them follow the pattern "servir > sirvió, sirvieron"...
... and seguir > siguió, siguieron [note that 'gu' is effectively just a consonant with its silent u]
I have come across only a few exceptions to that^ rule:
namely, the three "-cer.nir" verbs: discernir, concernir, cernir(se)... the three "-ergir" ones: sumergir, convergir, divergir... and hendir - [e.g., the third person preterite becomes él discer.nió - not discirnió].
There are also one or two [?] defective verbs which behave like that^, for example 'ellos agredieron' (they attacked), not 'agridieron'.
Saludos, David Mc
Hi, I think the translation for 12 is wrong, it's not saying anything about being "key":
In Nicaragua there are amazing islands and keys in the Caribbean Sea.Hola. Creo que los ejemplos en esta lista son del pretérito y no del presente de subjuntivo.
Gracias.
How do learners remember when to use the "de" described above? Do native speakers learn it only from growing up with the language? I don't see any particular rule for knowing when to use the "de" and when not to--how "wrong" is it to omit the "de?"
Are you going to launch an app soon?
i find the way the speaker speaks is not natural compared to those i heard from TV
Could we say “Es esencial que hayan buenos acuerdos entre ellos”?
You told how not say each person is different. How do we say it.
or also each dog is different. or is it just people.
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