Spanish language Q&A Forum

 It depends where you live!  I live in the southern hemisphere. My answers would be different to someone living in the northern hemisphere. Por favor, I would like to suggest the name of the country is added to the question. So ... "Which adjectives could you use to describe Spain's weather in octubre?"  I hated getting marked "incorrect" when I was actually correct!  Gracias and I love this course.

 I am afraid I didn't meet , as yet,  this expression in English and thus, I don't know its meaning. So, can't say if it is "por" or "para" ..

(probably  the Spanish sentence has a well defined meaning but, with my poor Spanish, can't say what is this meaning..

I know I have brought this up before, but I think, after seeing this example, I should bring it up again.  Please see the following example:

Cuando comáis esta noche recoged los platos.When you eat tonight, put the dishes away.

From my understanding, the word "recojed" is not subjunctive. It is the vosotros command form used in Spain for plural family and friends (you plural -vosotros form).  The subjunctive would be recojáis (which is both subjunctive and imperative). It appears that "recojed" is only in the  command from, a different tree in grammar.  

I noticed  that others have questioned the use of the imperative.  You hold stedfast that what you are using is the subjunctive, but as learners, we find that there are some differences.  For me, the use of "recojed" would be the imperative.

I have made this distinction in other exercises that use commands as subjunctive.  Maybe I am still missing something, but every verb book/site I reference for the verb trees, makes this distinction.  

In the case of the example above, I don't believe it would change the meaning, However, in some cases when the command has been switched for the subjunctive, the meaning feels different to me.  

Thank you for your consideration!

Hello, 

RE: Kwizbot           puesto que era mi cumpleaños  You                         puesto que fue mi cumpleaños

I was wondering why the imperfect was used here and not the preterit since the birthday was yesterday, which is a definite period in time and is now complete.   

Thank you. 

Nicoel

I was just reading over the questions, and wondered about this one:

"with some adjectives like mucho/mucha, hambre would take the feminine form (mucha hambre). It works the same way as the word "agua": (el agua caliente, but mucha agua caliente)"

Is there a rule and  lesson that covers this? It certainly is a curious phenomena.

Nicole

When should I use the past progressive rather than the imperfect tense

Although I understand this lesson, the quiz question  "What is the gender of the word ____" seems to vague.  My understanding is that, with living things, the gender of the word is determined by the gender of the person/animal etc it refers to.  Therefore, without a pronoun or phrase to clarify, it seems to me the correct answer should be "don't know".  Obviously, except in some very rare situations, "both" seems inaccurate.  Would it be more "on point" to ask thequestion using a phrase?