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Lisa D.B1KwizIQ community member

Saw not have seen

I feel that the translation of the sentence into English was incorrect for the tense requested and confused me. The clue was pretérito perfecto as well as the translation saw. Pretérito conjugation of ver for ellos is vieron or “saw”, but pretérito perfecto would be Han visto or “have seen”. Please don’t make it confusing for us!

Asked 4 years ago

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Alexander B.A2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

May/might

Hola!

Which modal verb is used to express "may/might"?

Regards,

Alexander

Asked 7 years ago

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Victoria E.A2KwizIQ community member

Can bastante take on a different meaning?

I feel like I've heard some people use "bastante" to mean "a lot." Like, "En mi ciudad, hay bastantes lugares para salir." Is that accurate?

Asked 6 years ago

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allison h.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Why can't you also use "que" here?

Asked 8 years ago

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Janet c.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Use of "medio" vs "el mitad do"

Se comió ________ bocadillo. He ate half the sandwich.

medio was the correct answer. I put "el mitad de" which was marked wrong.

EDIT: Maybe because I used "de" instead of "del"? Now it is being marked correct with that answer. If this is the case, shouldn't it show me that "el mitad del" is the correct answer? This is confusing.

Asked 5 years ago

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molly d.A1KwizIQ community member

Yo soy bajo

Is it my imagination, or is the speaker saying "yo soy debajo" instead of "yo soy bajo"?

Asked 6 years ago

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John O.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Ser y Estar!

Hola,

Can you explain why the translations are "Eran tan refrescas" and "...estaba deliciosa."

They are both describing the food so I would have thought that they would both been the same - i.e. using ser.

Hope you can clarify.

Regards

John

Asked 7 years ago

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Ian B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Why switch from third to second person singular in last sentence?

"Ahora casi todo es digital, es muy inmediato, cómodo, y ahorras mucho tiempol; ." Why didn't the structure continue with the conjugation in the third person singular? es digital; es muy inmediato; ....it is digital, it ismore immediat then:- it saves a lot of time. The "s" at the end of "ahorras" is not very distinct and logic would seem to demand that the last part would be "It saves a lot of time" rather than " You save a lot of time" (in the second person familiar form)

Asked 6 years ago

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Merle F.A1KwizIQ community member

When to use 'Yo soy' and "yo estas"

Please explain when we should use "Yo soy " and "Yo estas" - in what contexts??

THank you

Asked 4 years ago

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Ian B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

I was going to vs I was about to.10________ avisarte de que la fiesta se ha cancelado. I was about to warn you that the party is cancelled.Iba aEstuve aFuiEstaba yendo a Tuve que

I was completely thrown by the inclusion of the words "About to".

Iba a avisarte would just mean "I was going to warn you"