When talking about somebody's origin (for example "she was from Spain") do you say "ella era de España" or "ella fue de España"?
Dear anyone,
Your duolingo forum registration isn't automaticaly transferred to duome forum so in order to join duome forums you need to register with your existing or any other username and email; in any case it's advised that you choose a new password for the forum.
~ Duome Team
Fue vs Era - talking about origin
| B2 
| A2+ 
| A1 
-
Explorer
-
ExplorerMOD
- MOD
- Posts: 1380
- Joined: Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:09 pm
- Location: Lusitania
- Duolingo: Explorer
- Has thanked: 1880 times
- Been thanked: 3272 times
|-
b05aplmun.ca
- b05aplmun.ca
- Posts: 59
- Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:59 pm
- Has thanked: 157 times
- Been thanked: 95 times
Re: Fue vs Era - talking about origin
"Era" is the imperfect third person singular of "ser" and "fue" is the preterite.
I'd go with "era," because you're referring to a long and indefinite period of time, not something like "ella fue de España por diez años," which would be grammatically correct, but logically impossible.
-
Mary_La_MaguitaUwU
-
Mary_La_MaguitaUwU
- Posts: 81
- Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:24 pm
- Location: Santiago De Chile
- Duolingo: Mary_RZ
- Has thanked: 34 times
- Been thanked: 48 times
Re: Fue vs Era - talking about origin
Ella era de España.
The difference is that "era" corresponds to the imperfect past tense and "fue" to the simple past perfect tense.
MARY
Tricks to gain a lot of exp in Duo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgSzUgWE7fA