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September 21, 2025, 01:20 AM
¡Hola!
I would appreciate it if you could comment on my reasoning with regard to the following sentence:
This text is about a person who's been explained by a friend of his how to use computers.
Below is the sentence I am interested in:
https://i125.fastpic.org/big/2025/0921/03/aa9648f1f4dd24bc3dbebab189596503.jpg
The forms in red stand for my selections.
I have managed to figure out “hubieran inventado” because I assumed that there had to be a point in the past when the computer was invented (a contrary-to-fact statement in the past). As regards “fuera”, I believe it refers to a contrary-to-fact statement in the present.
The stumbling block is “quisiera”. I understand that it means kind of “I still wish”. I would venture a guess that “fuera” (imp.subj) precludes using “quero” (pres.) but I am failing to give my guess the grammatical background to validate it.
I would translate the passage as:
Although I have learnt a lot since then (the day my friend explained computers to me), I still wish that everything were as simple as before the time the computer had been invented.
Thank you.
I would appreciate it if you could comment on my reasoning with regard to the following sentence:
This text is about a person who's been explained by a friend of his how to use computers.
Below is the sentence I am interested in:
https://i125.fastpic.org/big/2025/0921/03/aa9648f1f4dd24bc3dbebab189596503.jpg
The forms in red stand for my selections.
I have managed to figure out “hubieran inventado” because I assumed that there had to be a point in the past when the computer was invented (a contrary-to-fact statement in the past). As regards “fuera”, I believe it refers to a contrary-to-fact statement in the present.
The stumbling block is “quisiera”. I understand that it means kind of “I still wish”. I would venture a guess that “fuera” (imp.subj) precludes using “quero” (pres.) but I am failing to give my guess the grammatical background to validate it.
I would translate the passage as:
Although I have learnt a lot since then (the day my friend explained computers to me), I still wish that everything were as simple as before the time the computer had been invented.
Thank you.