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Winter's day
If my memory serves me right we say:
Summer´s day winter´s day spring day fall/autumn day Is that correct |
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But you can also say summer day and winter day, although it's true you wouldn't use the apostrophe for spring or autumn.
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El BNC tiene las siguientes frecuencias:
winter's day: 32 winter day: 12 summer's day: 70 summer day: 36 spring's day: 0 spring day: 38 autumn's day: 0 autumn day: 23 |
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And the reason is...
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¿Por qué crees que un idioma natural sería lógico?
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¡Es verdad! ¡No es lógico!
There are certain situations where I would expect to hear "winter's day" instead of "winter day". But I would say that "summer's day" is less commonly used.
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Bueno, el mío es lógico
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No hay manera cierta de deducir si un sustantivo es masculino o femenino: hay que aprenderlo. Luego hay lo de los cambios de vocales - si que hay lógica, en el sentido de que si conoces la etimología latina puedes deducirlos, pero en el contexto de sólo conocer el español son otra cosa que hay que aprender. Y eso es para empezar...
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What are the changes in vowels that you mention? I must say that, besides it being my "heart language", I'm not a very big fan of English. I don't think it EVER makes sense....
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E.g. molar (adj) with cognate noun muela, from Latin molaris. However, had the Latin been mōlaris it would be mola in Spanish: the vowel wouldn't change when it got the stress. In essence, Latin short and long vowels (which sounded different and were written differently in Latin) are pronounced and spelt the same in Spanish but behave differently with stress. |
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