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Verb before the subject
For practice, I'm reading the Reina Valera, which is a Spanish translation of the Bible. (By the way, for those who are looking for a long text with Spanish and English translations for practice and cross-checking, I suggest the Bible. It's legally free, and available just about anywhere.)
I observed that, at least in the Book of Genesis, the verb often went before the subject. For example: En el principio crió Dios los cielos y la tierra. (In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.) Y dijo Dios: Sea la luz: y fué la luz. (And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.) And God blessed the seventh day. (Y bendijo Dios al día séptimo.) At first, I chucked it to the Bible's more liberal and poetic language; but then I checked out the Spanish Wikipedia and saw these: 1911 - Muere Reinhold Begas, pintor y escultor neobarroco alemán. 1944 - Nace Nino Bravo, cantante español. So when should the verb go before the subject? Or can it be used as commonly as the subject-before-verb position? |
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