Forum: Grammar
October 08, 2023, 05:32 AM
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Forum: Grammar
October 05, 2023, 12:00 PM
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Forum: Grammar
October 05, 2023, 11:20 AM
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Please correct me if I'm way off on this. I'm...
Please correct me if I'm way off on this. I'm recalling something about the use of the indicative versus the subjunctive after certain conjunctions with que, such as aunque.
When I read the...
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
September 25, 2023, 11:58 AM
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Forum: Grammar
September 09, 2023, 07:15 PM
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Forum: Grammar
September 01, 2023, 07:20 PM
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Rusty, you are correct!
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Rusty, you are correct!
https://www.rae.es/dpd/le%C3%ADsmo
What I was asking about in the original sentence is a special case of leísmo which exists even in non-leísta areas!
4. El...
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Forum: Grammar
September 01, 2023, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 11
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I just found this online: ...
I just found this online:
http://www.hispanoteca.eu/Foro/ARCHIVO-Foro/Se%20le%20ve%20-%20se%20lo%20ve.htm
It looks like this issue of lo/le and also the issue of passive se versus impersonal se...
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Forum: Grammar
September 01, 2023, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 11
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Forum: Grammar
September 01, 2023, 12:02 AM
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Replies: 11
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Forum: Grammar
August 31, 2023, 07:47 PM
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Forum: Grammar
August 29, 2023, 09:40 PM
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Forum: Grammar
August 29, 2023, 04:05 PM
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¿Cómo le dicen?
I hear this in Colombia. "What is your name?"
But I thought that it would be ¿Cómo lo dicen?, since decir is here a transitive verb (meaning llamar) and would take a direct object lo, rather than le...
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Forum: Grammar
August 28, 2023, 11:19 PM
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Un grupo de 14 turistas se vieron
I read this today in semana.com, a sad commentary on the state of affairs today in Cartagena de Indias.
"Un grupo de 14 turistas españoles se vieron envueltos en una situación de insultos y...
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Forum: Grammar
August 26, 2023, 03:32 PM
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Replies: 11
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Thanks. Yes, I now remember those two previous...
Thanks. Yes, I now remember those two previous discussions.
I have to admit that I don't really understand this area very well. But the main thing that I wanted to be certain of in my example was...
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Forum: Teaching and Learning Techniques
August 26, 2023, 03:01 PM
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Rusty, I found your comment on the tico r...
Rusty, I found your comment on the tico r interesting.
Can you give a phonological description of it? Were you able to reproduce it during your stay?
The reason I ask is that I have a text from...
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Forum: Grammar
August 26, 2023, 12:38 PM
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Replies: 11
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Help with use of se ve
I'm seeing this usage of "se ve" often. Here is an example that I noticed today in semana.com.
"En el clip, que dura al menos 2 minutos, se ve a una mujer joven, ..."
I can't understand the...
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Forum: Grammar
September 09, 2022, 07:53 PM
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Forum: Grammar
September 09, 2022, 03:40 PM
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Use of seguir a
I'm reading a report which came out in February 2022 on crime statistics in Bogotá. The 16 localidades of Bogotá were rated acccording to total crime which occurred in 2021. Kennedy is worst,...
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Forum: Grammar
September 06, 2022, 09:21 PM
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Thanks very much for clearing this up! I looked...
Thanks very much for clearing this up! I looked up conocer(se) in the Dudas dictionary and it all makes sense now. The usage survives in some areas. On my next trip to Antioquia I will use it and see...
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Forum: Grammar
September 05, 2022, 10:39 PM
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I'll give my thoughts on this because I was...
I'll give my thoughts on this because I was looking into this exact thing two days ago. I'm no expert, however, but it might be useful.
In your first example the subjunctive seems to be required...
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Forum: Grammar
September 05, 2022, 10:00 PM
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Conocerse con alguien
Another example from elcolombiano.com which has me puzzled.
Recently, a certain senator has had to explain his behaviour in Cartagena with respect to an altercation involving a "dama de compañía"...
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Forum: Grammar
September 05, 2022, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 4
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Thanks so much for the perfect answer! This is...
Thanks so much for the perfect answer! This is what I suspected.
Could we transform the sentence to the following so as to preserve the meaning but at the same time avoid violating the present...
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Forum: Grammar
September 01, 2022, 10:49 PM
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Replies: 4
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Question on a conditional construction
Today I read this headline in elcolombiano.com
"Doce quebradas causarían tragedias en Medellín si no se atienden."
Can anyone comment on the grammatical correctness of this construction? It...
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Forum: Grammar
July 08, 2022, 05:14 PM
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Excellent help, everyone.
On the side-note...
Excellent help, everyone.
On the side-note re. tú/usted, Rusty's comment is well-taken and I should not get too relaxed, even though, as Angelica pointed out, things seem quite informal in many...
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Forum: Grammar
July 08, 2022, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 924
Very good. I'm so happy that I asked these two...
Very good. I'm so happy that I asked these two questions about the indirect object pronoun, as my lingering concerns have been cleared up.
I am now assured that agreement in number in the third...
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