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to your credit - en su favor / en tu favor
because you deserve it - porque lo merece (usted) / porque lo mereces
Jim
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malevo: vicious, spiteful, hateful
embrujo: (magic) spell
disimulo: cunning, craftiness, underhandedness, slyness
casi pierdo hasta mi cama. I'm almost losing even my bed.
It must be an idiom I'm not familiar with. (I've lost just about everything?) Yo tampoco lo entiendo....
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dirigir una empresa
(correr is physical running -- with your legs -- don't use that!)
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I don't think that rule really works. That is, I don't think it's helpful to think in those terms.
The most you can have is one verb in the infinitive after another verb that takes the infinitive.
And if that first verb isn't the kind that can take the infinitive, you...
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The preterite tells the action of your story; the imperfect tells the
state of affairs that existed at the time. What you're saying is
sort of like this:
I took the action of going (fui) to the movies because I was then in the state of wanting (quería) to see a film.
As used in...
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It was a cold December when we unexpectedly inherited a lot of money. We thought of a whole lot of things to do, but we didn't know where to start. First we got some estimates to do a bit of remodeling in our house. Of course we wanted to paint the house, get new radiators, and do all the...
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My ulterior motive was to understand whether the se in that
construction is best analyzed as a reflexive pronoun or as a mark of
the passive. I would say reflexive pronoun, by which I mean that
such expressions are not restricted to the third person nor to
inanimate subjects.
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You're on the right track: tra-er > tra - a! But traer
(and caer) are irregular. They insert -ig- before the
ending: tra-ig-a. Tu form adds 's'.
traigas / caigas
traer and llevar are opposite in direction (like bring/take, come/go), so you might not necessarily be able...
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Some of this doesn't make sense. It's fragmentary, not organized
into complete sentences. Lack of context makes it more difficult
to translate (song lyrics?, a poem?, stream of consciousness in a
novel? from Spain? from Mexico? etc.)
Tonight's the night, getting together with...
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Use the imperfect to indicate indefinite, open periods of time in the past; it's a non-eventive, background tense.
Use the preterite to indicate definite, closed periods of time in the past; it's an eventive, foreground tense.
If you're new to this, it may require some guess...