About how words are ordered and arranged to form phrases and sentences.
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Can someone teach me spanish over skype please? [closed]
I started using some tapes a couple of days ago. I have probably listened to about an hour so far. My memory isn't brilliant so I now know about a sentence of Spanish, but I think it would be useful ...
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En esta oración ¿cuáles son las funciones sintácticas?
No tienes derecho a afearles que hayan incumplido todas sus promesas electorales
Identifico "tienes" como el núcleo del predicado (el verbo principal de la oración principal) y "derecho" como ...
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En esta oración compleja ¿cuáles son las oraciones subordinadas y qué función desempeñan?
Oración compleja:
ha sido en la última década cuando la importación de vocablos de ese idioma ha crecido, sobre todo entre los jóvenes.
Estoy un poco inseguro de cuáles son las oraciones ...
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¿La hora de salida es …?
Ha surgido una duda en la oficina sobre la hora de salida, hay varias posibilidades:
La hora de salida es a las seis. (Suena bien).
La hora de salida es las seis. (Suena raro).
La hora de salida son ...
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“ir a «infinitive»” vs. future tense
There are two ways to indicate a future action, ir a «infinitive» and the future tense. How do I decide which to use when? Is one form more common when spoken or in writing? Is there a regional ...
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“Toma un tiempo” o “lleva un tiempo”, ¿qué suena más natural?
¿Qué suena más natural en castellano, tomar tiempo o llevar tiempo?
Una actividad que toma un tiempo considerable en ser desarrollada.
Una actividad que lleva un tiempo el ser desarrollada.
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“Soy yo el que vine…” or “soy yo el que vino…”?
What is often heard is
"Soy yo el que vine ayer a ... "
(I am the one who came yesterday to...) but I think that
"Soy yo el que vino ayer a ... "
is the correct sentence because the ...
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How to translate Overview and Outline?
I am writing a thesis and would like to add 2 subsections in my Introduction
Overview, and Outline, what would be the best way to translate them to spanish?
Estoy realizando una tesis, pero quiero ...
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Significance of adjective placement
In Spanish, adjectives typically come after the noun they modify. However, there are some cases when the adjective comes before the noun, and usually (always?) with a change in meaning. Example:
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How do you use the “passive se” with a reflexive verb?
What is the rule for using the "passive se" (e.g. "¿Cómo se dice?") with a reflexive verb that involves another se pronoun? For example, how would you translate "One takes a shower (ducharse) ...
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Two nouns in a row, or, is it OK to omit “de”?
Two or more nouns are sometimes used consecutively, with the second modifying the first.
For instance, I recently received a mail whose subject was "Honorarios migración." This is, I suppose, ...
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When should I use the word 'yo' in a sentence where the verb conjugation already shows that I am the subject?
Early on while I was learning Spanish, my teachers would always make us use the pronoun 'yo' even if it was redundant:
Yo pienso que...
Yo quiero...
Yo hablo...
etc.
However, a more ...
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Indirect object and “le”
La madre le lava la cara a la niña.
In that sentence, why is the word "le" there? The sentence already has a indirect object ("a la niña"), but removing the "le" makes the sentence to sound ...
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Unclear why to use “A vuestros hijos” instead of “vuestros hijos”
I have the following sentence in English
Do your children like to read?
Which translates to Spanish:
¿ A vuestros hijos les gusta leer?
To me it is unclear, why I have to use "A vuestros" ...
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What's the difference between “debe de” y “debe”?
Is there any difference? What's their usage? When should one be used instead of the other one?
Examples:
El niño debe de hacer su tarea.
El niño debe hacer su tarea.
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“Te va (a) encantar” - is “a” necessary?
Is the "a" necessary when using "ir a" to convey future meaning?
Google gives 17m results for "te va a encantar" but also 1.5m for "te va encantar". Does this rule vary according to formality?
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What is an expression in parentheses in the middle of a phrase called?
While I was reading the newspaper today I stumbled against something that is quite common and a bit obscure in writing in spanish.
It comes from this opinion column. (The opinion and debate exposed ...
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Tanto X como Y - ¿importa el orden?
Estoy traduciendo una frase de inglés:
Instructions are available in both English and Spanish.
La estructura que me parece más natural para este uso de both es tanto ... como ...:
Las ...
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“Habría” or “Hubiera”
Given the following sentence:
Si lo hubieran anotado, después no les hubiera (habría) costado tanto recordarlo.
we see that the first use of hubieran is well used, but the second one is ...
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How do I know whether to attach a direct object pronoun to the infinitive?
I often struggle to decide what sounds right when I need to use direct object pronouns. Lessons on these pronouns have not been much help because they teach that when using a direct object pronoun it ...
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What is the correct order of object pronouns?
I know that there are (at least) three types of personal pronouns in Spanish (well, and English): direct, indirect, and reflexive. In cases where all three (or at least two) are present, what is the ...
