english/spanish

[zudee]

I wanna learn English!

[forgotenmemory]

I wanna learn! I like tacos

[Suki]

Okay kidos, first lesson:


Mary eats apples.


María come manzanas.


María (Mary) = subject.

Come (eats) = verb / 3rd person singular, present tense. Infinitive = comer *

Manzanas (apples) = direct object.

Singular: manzana (apple).
Plural: manzanas (apples).

* Infinitives always end in -ar, -er, -re, -ir.

If you wanna make it into a passive:

The direct object becomes the subject of the sentences, so MANZANAS (apples) will now be the subject of this new sentence.

The verb stays the same and only changes in case the subject goes from singular to plural (or plural to singular).

MARÍA (singular) was the subject of the first sentence, our subject now is MANZANAS (plural); for the passive we need the verb TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE form of whatever verb we want to use (COMER/eat).

Las manzanas son comidas por María.

Las = The (article).

Manzanas = Apples (subject, noun).

Son comidas = are eaten (son = 3rd person plural of the verb SER*, to be; comidas = past participle of COMER, eat).

Por = By (preposition).

María = Mary (object of the passive).


... easy, right? xD

[Hisuwashi]

That's a useful lesson.... I wouldn't mind learning Spanish, actually.

Don't you need an article in front of manzanas?

& I still don't know how to pronounce the damn words properly.

[Suki]

Originally Posted by Hisuwashi

Don't you need an article in front of manzanas?

& I still don't know how to pronounce the damn words properly.

Nope, an article is not needed in that sentence because you don't want to specify what apples Mary eats.

You could use it though: María come las manzanas << this only makes sense if you have previously mentioned what type of apples she's eating. Eg: Hay unas manzanas rojas encima de la mesa, María come las manzanas (There're some red apples on the table, Mary eats those/the apples). But it would be better to say: Hay unas manzanas rojas encima de la mesa, María las come << it's understood it's the apples she eats, there's no need to say the word 'apples' again since las works as a pronoun (manzanas = feminine, plural; las = feminine, plural).

As for the pronunciation... that's hard to explain.

Come (eats) doesn't sound like "come" in English, it's pronounced like come'eh xD

Manzanas = man (pronounced the British way) + zah + n'us.

[Slykaz1]

Wouldn't manzanas be....mahn-zah-nahs?

[Hisuwashi]

Ohh right, thanks for the help...

In Italian, you would need to say: Maria mangia le mele

So a slight difference between two otherwise similar languages... I think.

[Suki]

I don't speak Italian so I have no idea... but "le" sounds like a masculine article and I'd say 'mele' is a feminine word

Originally Posted by Slykaz1

Wouldn't manzanas be....mahn-zah-nahs?

Meh, same thing

So, what d'you wanna learn next? ^______^

[kenmei]

Originally Posted by Suki

I don't speak Italian so I have no idea... but "le" sounds like a masculine article and I'd say 'mele' is a feminine word



Meh, same thing

So, what d'you wanna learn next? ^______^

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[Rose]

I speak spanish so im willing to help with any doubt someone has.