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Why reflexive verbs in this sentence?

gustar in the sense of like is always reflexive. Always. Me gusta eso, Le gusta eso: I like that. He/she or it likes that. gustase or gustara is imperfect subjunctive. And comiese is not reflexive. ...
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Why reflexive verbs in this sentence?

I think you have mis-read the sentences. These are subjunctive forms of gustar and comer not reflexives. You can check verb forms by going to the DLE entry, for instance for gustar and clicking on the ...
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Tengo + que + infinitive vs tengo infinitive

Although the translation of have is tener, in this particular case, the meaning of the word is important in Spanish. Here it has the meaning of need or must. When tener is used as in need you always ...
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¿Es "a día de hoy" correcto?

Es una coletilla. Opino su empleo debería tender a cero. Algunas otras frecuentes: "la verdad" (y derivados), "es cierto que", "lo que", "si que", "un poco&...
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Alguna palabra que defina algún evento alegre pero en el presente se recuerda con tristeza

Perdón por entrometerme con tanta ignorancia. Pero lo único que viene a mente en primera instancia es: "Nostalgia". La evocación de un recuerdo feliz en el presente, que provoca tristeza.
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Need example sentence with poníamos (poner)

Searching in the CREA (http://corpus.rae.es/creanet.html) you get hundreds of examples: and if you click in poniamos in any of the examples, it shows you the paragraph, not yust part of the sentense.
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Google translate changes Preterite into Imperfect?

The verb querer is a little unusual in the preterite/imperfect distinction, at least from an english speaker's point of view. quisiste abrir la puerta implies that you attempted to open the door, ...
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Does anyone have the old grammar book "A Spanish Grammar" by Coester? check the index please for hacer

It's a section index: Consequently, it does not refer to page 104 but to section 104 (pages 84-85), point c:
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