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Julian_L.

The sentence in Spanish is not ambiguous because it's specifically using the verb «ir» ("to go"), and the wording has only one interpretation.

¿Por qué dijo Paul que no podría ir? → Why did Paul say he/she wouldn't be able to go there?

Julian_L.

del autobús → A stop or station where a very specific bus that was already part of the conversation and that the listener knows which one the speaker is talking about, stops. By default it refers to a bus that "I" or "we" intend to take. de autobús → A stop or station where no b...

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Cifi wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 7:16 am
@Julian_L.: the expression dolor de cintura seems to be used along with dolor lumbar, dolor lumbar bajo, lumbalgia, lumbago.

Are all of these interchangeable or are there differences?

They are the same, although I'm not sure how common «lumbago» is.

Julian_L.

ElmerRamone wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 12:13 pm
Is 'waist pain' something that is said frequently in Spanish?

Yes.

Julian_L.

Number 8, sentence, is also "the punishment given by the court or judge to a criminal" in English, so it's not really a false friend. No? That's what Wiktionary says, so it's partially a false friend. I remember someone once called these kinds of words "frenemies" on the Italian...

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I came across this Duo sentence; 'Deja de hablar que no puedo oír', with the translation given as 'Stop talking because I can't hear.' I'm assuming this is an informal way of using 'porque', but I could be wrong. Is this common? It's the causal «que» . It's mentioned on the DLE as an equivalent of ...

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In the second sentence it might be for emphasis, as the mouse obviously does not eat itself. :mouse: I think it can work without the "se", but I'm not sure. At least to me, the second sentence would sound strange without «se» because it says «la galleta». I would change it to «una galleta...

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On April 9 I received an e-mail of precisely "Your translation was accepted" from a course I finished some years ago and I didn't do anything else since then.

Julian_L.

The main clause («Andando» = "Let's go") is giving a command, and the subordinate clause («llegamos tarde» = "we are arriving late") is justifying why the thing mentioned in the main clause should be done, and that justification is introduced by the conjunction «que». So basicall...

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The sentence on that page says «que llegamos tarde» (indicative present) instead of «lleguemos». What's exactly your question?

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ran ran wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:26 am
| Encabezado 1 | Encabezado 2
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|ejmplo | ejemplo

Dejaste el acento grave delante del | - | - | -. Va sin él.

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Julian_L.

ser aburrido/a = to be boring
estar aburrido/a = to be bored

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one more question tho... how does 'ili' work with all of this? because 'ili' is already plural... «Ilia(j)» means "their(s)": Li a hund o = His do g Ŝi a hund o = Her do g Ili a hund o = Their do g Li aj hund oj = His do gs Ŝi aj hund oj = Her do gs Ili aj hund oj = Their do gs Basically ...

Julian_L.

As I'm only a learner, I'm not the one to judge this, but there are some which I, too, consider questionable, e.g. "Las entrevistas de trabajo lo ponen muy ansioso a Bruno". Doubling the direct object is normal in the Rioplatense dialect, but not (or not standard) in the other ones, so ye...

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Do you have some of those sentences with that usage of «pro» to compare them? PIV describes «pro» precisely how you did in the first place. Unless you meant that " Dankon pro la bongusta vespermanĝo! " sentence. Well: Thank you for the delicious dinner! = I thank you because dinner was del...

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Depende de si estamos hablando de una fecha o de un «lugar», y también de como se manejen las palabras que se están usando y en qué contexto. Con fechas: El anuncio sale (en el o los periódicos) dentro de dos días. → Faltan dos días para que el anuncio aparezca (en los periódicos). El periódico sale...

Julian_L.

«El anuncio sale en el periódico/diario» sería que ahora mismo hay un anuncio en específico que se puede leer en el o los últimos periódicos que salieron a la venta.

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Thanks, @Julian_L. ! So it's an adverb, but one that is used without a verb? At least I have not yet seen verbs in any of the example for "he/heme/hemos aquí". That's what dictionaries says. I didn't even know «he» here was an adverb and I cannot explain why we have an adverb that doesn't...

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It's just a way used in some countries to say "here is/are": He aquí algunos ejemplos = Here are some examples This should be 1st person singular as far as I can tell, and yet it doesn't seem to express a personal/subjunctive statement. I haven't found any other conjugations, e.g. *hemos a...

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First as a clarification, this sentence in a normal conversation would use the active voice: [Ambos]/[Los dos] ladrones usaron disfraces de payaso But if for some reason you have to use the passive voice, there are two options: (Unos) disfraces de payaso fueron usados por [ambos]/[los dos] ladrones....

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Take these two sentences: Me gusta jugar mucho fútbol. Me gusta mucho jugar fútbol. Your thoughts about those two sentences are right. Semantics I know, but just curious if the placement of "mucho" can change the entire meaning. Because in both English translations, it probably wouldn't m...

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I've just checked, and I doesn't contain anything of Portuguese, only some basic words or phrases in English and their variants in Hebrew.

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At least in my case, when I talk about my sisters (who are older than me) without telling their names, I say «mi hermana más mayor» for the eldest one, while I simply say «mi hermana» for the other one. Clarifying she is my «hermana del medio» would be odd, because the only one that's younger than h...

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At least to me, the only interpretation that «estoy enfermo/a del estómago» can have is the medical one. The closest thing with a metaphorical sense that I have ever heard is «se me revuelve el estómago». The thing about «ponerse enfermo» with the medical sense was more or less answered in the sente...

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luo-ning wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 3:21 pm
My guess is "no tiene que" is "has to not" (idiomatically "must not") […] so the whole thing means "there must not be any errors". Is that correct?

Yes, that's what it means.

Julian_L.

And quite a lot of fruits and vegetables have different names, don't they? I remember having learned the following names that are used in Spain as far as I know, and then Duolingo surprised me with different ones, likely used somewhere in Latin America. The first few that come to my mind: Peach - e...

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Al menos a mí, «Está en el médico» no me suena raro, aunque supongo que lo primero que se me ocurriría decir sería «Fue al médico».

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It's not easy. Hold on ;) About the Esperanto and Indonesian forums: When talking about the Esperanto language in Esperanto, its name is capitalized: Mi parolas Esperanton I think it should be "Saya berbicara bahasa Indonesia", with "bahasa" in lowercase ( example from the Indon...

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