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papi p.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

past progressive

Considering estar can be used in the preterite and imperfect with the present participle ( gerund ), are they used in different ways? Or do they mean the same thing? For example, do:

"Estuve corriendo" and "estaba corriendo" mean the same thing? I was running. Is one used more than the other for any reason?

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Susan H.A1Kwiziq community member

Why don´t you give more examples and also do a proper test on this segment, I can´t see the point of this little kwiz bot things.

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M. C.A2Kwiziq community member

How can I tell if her is the direct or indirect object in a sentence like, I waited 2 hours for her. Or I waited for her for 2 hours.

La/le esperó dos horas.

Is 2 hours a direct object in, "I waited [for] 2 hours."?

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david c.A1Kwiziq community member

When I translate this with other programs and ask native speakers, this is completely incorrect.My research tells me that he visto means I have seen, NOT I saw. Maybe this is correct in some countries, but I haven't found any native speaker in the U.S.A. who translates these simple past sentences (i.e. I saw, they saw) with the use of haber. They are simply vi, viste, vio, vimos, and vieron.

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Tommy S.B1Kwiziq community member

.I don't understand your answer. I used present subjunctive yo form and the answer was in the indicative

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Andy E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

What's more common in spoken Peninsular Spanish - with or without the article?

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Meghan Y.B2Kwiziq community member

How would you say "I will be here for 4 months?"

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Steve B.C1Kwiziq community member

hubo/había with a set time

“Maria told us there was a meeting at 4”

hubo is incorrect here, but I thought with a set time it became ‘hubo’? What am I missing?

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K. M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

I see that your tip says that the degree of probability is the same for indicative and subjunctive. Thst they are interchangeable.

I had never heard that before.So, I can retract my question.

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K. M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

With “No estoy segura pero tal vez __ un coche nuevo” both compramos and compremos are considered correct.

There seems to be a lot of doubt in this sentence. What would trigger only the subjunctive?

Thank you. K

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