Hola Johan,

I imagine you are still referring to the same comment you posted previously. See the answer from before here:

"Hola Johan

I imagine you are referring to this question "Normalmente ceno con la familia por la noche."

We could say "...con mi familia", but when it is obvious that you are referring to your own family, in Spanish we don't need the possessive "mi", we use the article "the" instead. But both would be correct, though.

Hope this helps.

Inma"

Hola Johan,

I thought you might be interested to compare this to another frequently-used situation where Spanish does not use the possesive but English does, which is when referring to parts of the body. 

If you go to the doctor because you have a pain in your knee, you would tell say "my knee hurts". In Spanish you would say "me duele la rodilla". 

If you hear news that your friend Pedro had an accident, you might hear "Pedro se ha roto la pierna" or "Pedro tiene el brazo roto" - but you would never translate these as "Pedro has broken the leg" or "Pedro has the broken arm"

Saludos

Shui

Hola Nicole

The order in the English translation is different because that seems to be the most natural way to say it in English. In Spanish there is more flexibility in terms of word order. There is no specific rule.

You can say:

Por la mañana desayuno a las nueve.

Desayuno a las nueve por la mañana.

Both are fine.

I imagine, as well as in English, that we open the sentence with the part that we want to emphasise more. Inma

Hola John

In Peninsular Spanish we use preposition "por" to say "in the morning", "in the afternoon", and "in the evening". In some parts of Northern Spain preposition "a" is sometimes used too, but this is not the general use. 

You may have heard "en" but that would be in some parts of Latin America, not in Spain.

Kwiziq is focused on Peninsular Spanish at the moment, although we plan to have a Latin American version too at some point in the future.

Un saludo

Inma

Hola Johan

I imagine you are referring to this question "Normalmente ceno con la familia por la noche."

We could say "...con mi familia", but when it is obvious that you are referring to your own family, in Spanish we don't need the possessive "mi", we use the article "the" instead. But both would be correct, though.

Hope this helps.

Inma