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This is a common expression, both on its own and as a part of a larger sentence.
Be careful with it, because neither “you” nor “tell” means what you might think at first.
“You” here is the generic you; it doesn’t mean the speaker is actually talking to someone. Spanish often uses either “tú” or the reflexive in these cases.
Each sentence has a mistake: find it and fix it!
It’s been ten years since I didn’t see him.
I’m thinking on traveling to Istanbul in April.
I enjoy writting.
My wife cooks very well. His favorite dish is bacalao a la vizcaína.
Find the mistake in each sentence and fix it!
What means this word?
I make my homework every night.
He only listens music in the car.
Jane wants that I go.
This expression is a piece of advice on how to get revenge. Normally, one gets revenge while extremely angry. This piece of wisdom instead suggests that instead of being mean or rude, we should be extremely and genuinely nice and polite to the wrongdoer.
– “I can’t believe how incompetent you are! Even a 5-year-old could do this better than you! You’re useless!!!”
These words are confusing because “sensible” is a false friend.
– Sensitive means that a thing or person notices every little thing; it can also mean a person is emotionally fragile, and starts crying very easily.
– Sensible describes something that is reasonable and logical.
We all know that “¿Cómo está él?” means “How is he?”. Here, we’re asking about his current state or emotion, if he’s well, sick, happy, sad, etc.
But the question “¿Cómo es él?” would also seem to be “How is he?”. Obviously, they both can’t be the same question, and they aren’t—we have two set questions to express those ideas:
These are two very confusing verbs, because they’re both “decir” in Spanish.
One easy trick to know when to use which one is by knowing what follows each verb.
Say is usually followed by the words spoken.
The person they’re spoken to may be mentioned optionally after “to”
Put the following words in order to form a grammatically correct sentence.
1. Madrid. / I / in / week / was / last
2. uniform / wear / to / at / We / work. / have / a
3. enough / study / She / doesn´t
4. still / haven´t / Mark / seen / We
Put the following words in order to form a grammatically correct sentence.
1. about/ having / How / pizza?
2. many/ people / were / How / there?
3. you / where / from? / Do / is / know / Johnny
We use “had better” (= ´d better) to give strong advice. It is followed by infinitive without to. Have a look at the following examples:
You´d better not get home late again.
The train leaves at 6. You´d better start packing now!