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Imperfecto de Indicativo
ESPAÑOL:
Yo estoy estudiando español. Yo ha tomado dos años de español en la escuela, y ahora yo estoy estudiando solo. Yo estoy estudiando el "Imperfecto de Indicadivo" y quiero verificar que yo estoy se uso pues. Por ejamplo, ¿digo "Señora Brown quería poder hablar español con facilidad" si yo sé que ella quiso "poder hablar español" el año pasado, pero no sé si ella quiere poder ahora? Y si yo hací errores en mí espeñol aquí, pueden me decir. *** ENGLISH: I am studying spanish. I have taken two years of Spanish in school, and no I am studying on my own. I am studying the "Imperfect de Indicadivo" and want to verify that I am using it well. For example, do I say "Señora Brown quería poder hablar español con facilidad" if I know that she wanted to be able to speak Spanish last year but don't know if she still wants to be able to now? And if I make mistakes in my Spanish here, you can tell me. |
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Corrections given above. There's no need to emphasize that you are the speaker (drop the subject pronoun if the verb's conjugated ending conveys the person without ambiguity). The continuous form that you used is overkill in Spanish. The simple present tense is what you really wanted to use. The continuous form should only be used when you are currently doing the action at that moment. The first person, singular, preterite tense of hacer is hice (not hací), but I changed the verb to what you meant to say instead (cometemos errores, no los hacemos) and used the present tense because that matches the English translation. |
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I'll add just one more correction: When using "señora"/"señor"/"señorita" to speak about a third person, one should use an article before the title: "La señora Brown quería hablar español"/"el señor Brown quería hablar español"/"la señorita Brown quería hablar español".
The article is not needed if you are addressing the person: "Señora Brown, ¿quiere usted hablar español?"
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