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Dos personas con sus camas en la misma casa. Espero que ellos no son familia. Ewwwww.
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You are right, indeed. Although both interpretations are technically correct, it does not make sense to ask the question in the past.
would it be correct to omit the second "en"? i.e. "¿Dormimos en tu cama o mi cama?"
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So why exactly is, "Will we sleep in your bed or my bed?' a wrong answer when, "Shall we sleep in your bed or my bed?" is acceptable?
Edit: three years later, I turn to Google for insight. From Oxford dictionaries: The traditional rule is that shall is used with first person pronouns (i.e. I and we) to form the future tense, while will is used with second and third person forms (i.e. you, he, she, it, they). For example: I shall be late.
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Because the 'will' indicates future action. This is a little more 'in the now', if you catch my drift ^_^ Therefore, 'shall' (or 'do') is the correct word!
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'Shall' only is correct, for the simple future. The correct convention is that, for the simple future 'shall' is used for first person singular and plural; 'will' being used for the other persons. For the emphatic (or 'coloured' [Fowler]) future, the usage is reversed. "I will do it" meaning, "I will that it be done".
my grandfather ( multilingual) explained about the German guy swimming off Brighton beach shouting ' I will drown and no-one shall save me! ' - so no-one did.
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Also, what is the appropriate translation of "Hey baby, do you have fries with that shake?" These two sentences would appear to go together....
We are asked to translate to English and the most common translation is "Will we..." The computer got it wrong.
Imagine having the statement 'la mujer toca mi camisa' and then this one. Lol
I was showing my brother Duolingo, and he thought that Lingots were called DINGOS give him some DINGOS
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Reguar -ar and -ir verbs are the same in present (indicative) and past (preterit): -amos and -imos.
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This seems like this is the first time we have seen "dormimos." An irregular verb, for sure.
Man, I loath having to memorize things when the handle is negligible or next to nonexistence apart from a short term memory application.
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OK, so would it be proper espanol to say: Dormimos en tu cama o mia/mio? Seriously all you horny respondents... Is "o mia/mio" appropriate? And would the mia/mio be dependent upon the gender of the speaker or of cama? Por favor: Only serious replies.
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Yes, that would work; however, I would use " o en mía" or "o en la mía" And it depends on the gender of the object. The same is true with tuyo/a and suyo/a.
I thought it was "duerme" or "duermemos" for "we sleep"? Why now is it spelled different (dormimos) for "we" than for "I" or "you"
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Some verbs, such as dormir, are irregular and have different conjugations. When I took Spanish at school, teachers always said basically "sorry these are different, but basically you just have to memorize the exceptions." While that can be okay sometimes, it's admittedly difficult on DL since they don't give you explanations. Here's a list of common irregular verbs: http://spanish.about.com/cs/verbs/a/conjug_index.htm
How were we supposed to know that Dormimos is "we sleep" But Duermo is "I sleep". Wouldnt it just be "dormo" for I sleep? Or "duermemos" for we sleep? I hate that I get marked wrong for something like that, when there was no way of knowing before hand.
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Would this sentence work for saying "should we sleep in your bed or in my bed"
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Present tense: "do we or are we" to are translated the same. This is inconsistent When asking a question you sometimes use "do" or "are", and sometime you don't.
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Are has a verb of its own (estar or ser), the 'do' is implied by the question marks. If they were asking 'are we sleeping in your bed or mine' it would have been "Somos dormir en tu cama o mi cama"
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Actually, I believe it would be, "Estamos durmiendo en tu cama o mi cama." The conjugated verb "estar" is followed by the participle form of a verb (in this case, "durmiendo"), not the infinitive (dormir).
Here's a reference from a quick google search: http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/spanish_progressive_tense_intro
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I was marked wrong for "We sleep in your bed or in my bed." That makes sense to me too. How would I know that they want this to be a question?
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The sentence was spoken in my lesson, and had NO questioning inflection. I was not marked wrong, at least, for posing it as a statement. I just noticed your comment was 4 years old, Jeff, but others may also wonder about the "question marks." :-)
The OR implies a question ... but it used to be popular with science students to respond to 'would you like tea or coffee?' with 'yes please'
It really sounds like a statement, even when you listen to the inflection closely. Or, it does to me, at least.
i dont know why this ❤❤❤❤ does not work cause i put "we slept" and they put that is wrong like :/
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Because the sentence "we slept" is past tense, referring to an action that already happened. Dormimos, in Spanish, does not refer to past tense actions. It usually only refers to actions that are currently happen, or are about to happen. English has verb tenses just like Spanish: I slept, I am sleeping, I will sleep. These all refer to different points in time. Spanish is the same: yo dormí, yo duermo, yo voy a dormiré.
Duolingo is really starting to make me mad. These sentences don't even translate to proper english
Spanish doesn´t always translate "exactly". It is not possible. Believe me I use 4 different translators.
