Forum: Grammar
September 21, 2013, 07:48 PM
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Forum: Grammar
December 02, 2012, 10:37 PM
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Esperar with past actions
(I was going to post this in the ojala with past actions thread, but my question is slightly different.)
My question refers to using esperar (used as I wish) when referring to past actions.
I...
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Forum: Grammar
July 30, 2012, 01:04 PM
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Forum: Grammar
July 27, 2012, 10:31 AM
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Thanks! Just a quick follow-up question-
If...
Thanks! Just a quick follow-up question-
If #4 is ok, then why wasn't my original statement to my friend, "Pensé que habría habido más tráfico," ("I thought that there would have been more...
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Forum: Grammar
July 27, 2012, 05:38 AM
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Correspondence of tenses
The other day I said to my friend who speaks decent Engish but is a native spanish speaker, "Pensé que habría habido más tráfico," (I thought there would have been more traffic) and he corrected me...
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Forum: Vocabulary
July 09, 2012, 01:33 AM
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Forum: Vocabulary
July 09, 2012, 12:56 AM
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Views: 3,191
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Forum: Grammar
June 27, 2012, 03:07 AM
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Forum: Grammar
June 26, 2012, 04:53 AM
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2 indirect objects?
The other day I said to my friend, "Dile a Félix hola por mi." (I was trying to say, "Tell Felix hello for me.")
My native-speaking friend said that no native speaker would say it that way--that...
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Forum: Translations
June 13, 2012, 02:45 PM
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Cuando viene aver...
"No te pierda por tanto días que cuando viene aver te olvido."
My Dominican friend (who doesn't speak English) wrote me that on facebook. I asked my Panamanian friend what "que cuando viene...
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Forum: Grammar
April 29, 2012, 11:52 PM
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Perfect. Thanks so much!
Actually I was...
Perfect. Thanks so much!
Actually I was just thinking of times when there is not a pronoun. In those cases do you use the subject that comes first?
Example:
El problema es los estudiantes....
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Forum: Grammar
April 29, 2012, 11:34 PM
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Conditional with como
I came across a sentence structure that was in conditional that used como to mean if instead if si, but it didn't seem to follow the rules of si condicional.
"Como lo vuelvas a hacer te...
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Forum: Grammar
April 29, 2012, 11:10 PM
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Subject/pronoun-Verb Agreement with ser
This is something I should have learned like my first month of Spanish, and I am embarrassed that I do not know it:
Obviously conjungation of a verb depends on the subject (Yo voy, Tú vas, etc)....
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Forum: Grammar
April 13, 2012, 05:07 PM
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Forum: Grammar
April 13, 2012, 03:45 PM
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Quick past subjunctive question
I was saying something to a friend who is Dominican and Puerto Rican yesterday, and he corrected me, but was not able to explain why. i thought I had been doing pretty well with subjunctive until...
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Forum: Grammar
February 07, 2012, 02:36 PM
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Views: 3,850
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Forum: Grammar
February 07, 2012, 01:49 PM
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Replies: 3
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Present main verb with past subjunctive
In several grammar books I have seen that the present subjunctive is used when the verb in the main clause is in the present, future, present perfect or command form and that the past subjunctive is...
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