How does "Hace días que Laura no viene a visitarnos." fit the pattern?
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GailKwiziq community member
How does "Hace días que Laura no viene a visitarnos." fit the pattern?
This was the quiz answer. I would have chosen "Laura no viene a vistarnos desde hace días." but it wasn't an option.
This question relates to:Spanish lesson "Using desde (hace) with the present instead of the perfect tense to express since/for"
Asked 5 years ago
EKwiziq community member
The problem is in the lesson, not in the quiz question. The lesson doesn't explain the "Hace ... que" structure, which is a common way of expressing this. It's in beta—hopefully they'll improve it!
GailKwiziq community member
Thanks. Will you let me know when the "Hace ... que" structure is added? I find "desde hace" and all its permutations challenging, since they don't match what I would say in English.

AlanKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
I find it helpful to interpret, for example, "desde hace 5 meses" as meaning "since 5 months ago". Desde = since, and hace = ago, in this context. So "for 5 months" equates to "since 5 months ago", which is literally true.
But, "since March" has to be "desde marzo". "desde hace marzo" makes no sense because it would mean "since March ago"!!
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How does "Hace días que Laura no viene a visitarnos." fit the pattern?
This was the quiz answer. I would have chosen "Laura no viene a vistarnos desde hace días." but it wasn't an option.
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