What has happened to the word " fire" ?

brian h.B1Kwiziq community member

What has happened to the word " fire" ?

Where is the word for " fire " in the model answer . Why has it been omitted ?

This question relates to:Spanish lesson "Conjugate stem-changing (e > ie) -er verbs in the present tense in Spanish (El Presente)"

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InmaNative Spanish expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Hola Brian

This is the sentence you are referring to:

¿Enciendes la chimenea?

(Can you light the fire in the fireplace?)

In Spanish, to say "to light the fire in the fireplace" we use a very short sentence which implies all that. That is "encender la chimenea"; it is as if we are saying literally "to light the fireplace" which in English would sound odd, but not in Spanish. This is why we don't have the word "fire" in the translation.

I hope this helped.

Saludos

Inma

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