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It's been a long dinner, I know... By the way, I would say:
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David tried and got a deductive explanation. Not to repeat what David said, I will try an inductive one. So, we’ll start from the examples, and the rules will easily come out (I hope). Let’s try to fill the gaps with qué or cuál. Notice that in some of them there are two possibilities. These are the most interesting, because you cannot explain them only through a formal explanation, that’s to say, it’s not an exigency of the structure, but also a semantic or, at least, stylistic choice of the speaker.
¿________ hay para comer? ¿________ de los dos te gusta más? ¿________ tienes ahí? ¿________ película vamos a ver? Ponen Superman, Locademia de policía... ¿________ vamos a ver? ¿________ más? ¿________ tienes? ¿________ piensas? ¿________ sugieres? ¿________ quieres?
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Here are my answers. I've hidden it below using the [hide] tags in case others want to see how they fare on Alfonso's test.
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¡Qué control! Well done, David.
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Había una vez que los foros tenía una pelotera leyendaria. Nos daba
ánimo sus alabaciones. Un día se voló en búsqueda de una nueva libertad y espero que la encontrara. Siempre la estrenamos mucho, pero menos ahora que tu llegaste a ser. Gracias, Gemma por ser lo que eres. ![]() ![]()
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I think leyendario is an alternate spelling, and certainly alabanzas is the
correct word that did not occur to me when I wrote my last post. Thanks, David
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Lo último que oí de la antigua pelota no es muy bueno.A veces la búsqueda de la libertad no acaba bien... http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-N3pPLPLE
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David answered right:
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Resurecting an old thread....
I just did an exercise on ¿Qué? y ¿Cuál? and there are two for which I do not understand the answer.... 5) English sentence: What is your reason for this? The book's Spanish sentence: ¿Cuál es tu razón por esto? 11) English sentence: What is the answer? The book's Spanish sentence: ¿Cuál es la respuesta? I see that they're both followed by a verb, but that doesn't always mean that the sentence must use cuál. Right? I was thinking that when you use "cual", there is usually a better defined pool of answers to choose from (do we call that more "countable"?) and that when we use "que" (like David said in one of the first posts here) that we're looking for an explanation, description, definition, etc.... I think that both of these sentences seem to express a desired explanation as a response. Auxilio! ![]()
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Okay - I am going to add another question to what I wrote in the previous post. Yesterday I was studying "qué" and "cuál". I thought I understood them before, but now I feel like I am more confused. I should have left it alone.
![]() Anyway, last evening, a friend sent me an email in which she said the following: "Me corte el dedo con el cuchillo - cortando un limon...." And my response was: "¿Cuál dedo?" Yet, I went back and corrected myself. To me, "cuál" sounds better here, but David said (much earlier in this thread) that "qué" always precedes a noun. Or am I wrong here? "5. Note that cuál is never used with a noun right after it." But my Mexican friend said the following: "En este caso puedes usar los 2: que dedo o cual dedo.... Aunque cual dedo suena mejor, pues quieres saber cual de todos no?" I would also say that I feel like "cuál" suena mejor...... Auxilio nuevamente!! ![]()
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You know I like to show how a native brain works, so, here some questions and answers:
¿Qué es la capital de Perú? ![]() ¿Qué es tu razón para esto? ![]() ¿Qué es la respuesta? ![]() ![]() ![]() Remember "ser" is the substantive verb in Spanish, so it makes the substance of things. Ask "qué" and you'll get the substance. Ask "cuál" and you'll got one spotted among many of similar substance. When you ask "¿qué/cuál dedo? nothing 'substantive' is going on. Notice that no article is needed, on the contrary (¿qué el dedo? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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