"He reducido la lista a seis."
Translation:I have reduced the list to six.
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Maybe although it is idiomatic. You should report it if you think it is correct, or should be accepted.
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Yes, but isn't the word for cut "cortar'?
Also, DUO seems to want to use HACIA when counting up to a number and A when reducing or cutting down to a number. Don't know why and don't think it's a hard and fast rule most places.
Hacia means toward, not to (or it can mean about when talking about a time) You didn't give an example, but the two words are not quite synonymous. And although hacia is essentially directional, it doesn't depend on which direction.
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I wrote "I reduced the list to six" (no "have") and was marked correct. I feel like that was incorrect....
Oh, oh -- I accidentally left out the word "have" and still got the sentence correct! Have I been wrong all along thinking that "have" or "has" needs to be in all of these sentences? I thought you would need the preterite of the verb if you wrote, "I reduced the list to six".
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Before if there was an auxiliary verb in the Spanish, it had to be translated in the English (i.e. have reduced), but maybe DL has something new up its sleeve...
A can be very difficult to hear, especially if the next word begins with an a sound. But with time you get it, although that may be partly just because you will know better when it should be there.
It is generally very difficult to hear an a in Spanish if the preceeding word ends in an a sound or the next word begins with one. But once you understand enough grammar to know that it has to be there, you will hear it, or at least not miss it.
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'He reducido' is the present perfect (have reduced) so you have to use the helping verb haber.
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Oh good grief. I absentmindedly put "He" at the beginning of my sentence instead of "I" as some kind of alternate Spanglish version.
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Should a pronounce the "a" after "lista" in this sentence or just pronounce it like "He reducido la lista seis"?
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A, yes, pronounce the a. It means "to" in this sentence. However you'd probably be understood if you didn't. I'm not a native speaker, but in my experience, it's just like some phrases in English, where it runs together so much that some people learn to skip it, especially people without formal language education.
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"a" is to, if you wanted to say at you'd use "en", plus the english sentence with "at" is kind of unnatural.
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I put: "I've got the list down to 6" which was marked as incorrect; I have reported it as I believe it is an accurate translation of the meaning, albeit in an idiomatic sense.
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my spanish teacher said 'la lista' meant the register.I put the register and it did not accept this anyone else find this?
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Sort of random. I have noticed that the duolingo voice seems to "roll" Rs at the beginning of words, like reducido. Is this actually a rolled R?
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Reducing the list by six and to six have different meanings in English. Is it the same in Spanish?
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Has anyone else gotten for the third hint for lista, "they call the roll at nine"? I reported it so they'd check to see if that is supposed to be there. Does it make sense? I don't get it, especially when the Spanish word is seis.
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I used "reducido" the way it was defined here and it said "taken" instead. ???
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"I have shortened the list to six" is the same as "I have reduced the list to six" and "I have decreased the list to six". As a native English speaker, it puzzles me that the first is not accepted.
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Does anyone else feel like this is a list of living xxxxx? It feels very ominous to me.
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Anyone else keep putting "he" instead of "I" because of the "He" in Spanish? I've done this a few times now!
