"Usted reconoce sus errores."
Translation:You acknowledge your mistakes.
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I agree. Could someone please explain why "you recognize its errors" isn't accepted? I know the sentence sounds a little weird, but is it not grammatically correct?
"RECOGNIZE YOUR ERRORS" LITERALLY SHOULD BE THE ONLY ACCEPTED ANSWER, BECAUSE THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT RECONOCER MEANS.
IT DOESN'T MEAN TO ADMIT, TO REALIZE, KNOW, TO DISCOVER, OR ANY OF THAT CONVOLUTED OR LITERALLY INCORRECT STUFF.
IT. MEANS. RECOGNIZE. LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE!
DON'T YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND? YOU'RE LITERALLY LEARNING A LANGUAGE! THAT MEANS LITERALLY LEARNING EXACTLY WHAT EACH AND EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL WORD MEANS! IT'S NOT ABOUT LEARNING "THE BASIC MEANING" OF THE SENTENCE!
IT'S ABOUT LITERALLY, LEARNING THE LITERAL EXACT MEANING OF EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL WORD. OTHERWISE YOUR ARE LEARNING IT INCORRECTLY!
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You are literally wrong. Look the word up in a spanish dictionary. Reconocer can mean "recognize", "admit", "Acknowledge", "examine", "survey" or "identify" depending on context and usage. Learning a language is very rarely a case of simply memorising a single meaning for a word and translating passages word-for-word. If it were, google translate would give perfect translations every time.
By the way, PUTTING SOMETHING IN CAPS DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE.
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US English isn't much of a guide to how to spell properly though. You keep missing the "u"s out of words, and get your "r" and "e" the wrong way around at the end of other words. And don't get me started on how you guys spell "plough", "doughnut" and "tonight". Also there's an "i" in aluminium. And for some reason you spell "aubergine" as "zucchini". That's only got one letter in the correct place! I suppose in comparison, spelling "recognise" wrong is pretty minor.
(tongue firmly in cheek) ;-)
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At least the Americans got one letter of "aubergine" correct. Baldrick couldn't get a single letter of "Christmas" right and he was English :) In a way that brings me to my point: "English" English is often not so "English" as we think. It is a language that borrows, embraces, adapts and adopts, while always somehow remaining stoicly English. Often, however, it is these changes that take English English away from American English and not vice versa. "Fall" for example, was common until the 18th century when "autumn" became fashionable, then the new norm. Apparently many of the "ize"/"ise" differences may have resulted from a similar process: http://www.metadyne.co.uk/ize.html
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You have a point. Despite English being a germanic language, half of the language is French (or borrowed from French) after England was invaded, and now only a quarter of English is actually german. Then as if that isn't enough, they start stealing words from other places from languages you might not expect like Hindi, Chinese, Swahili and Australian Languages. (There are some words from more obvious languages like Spanish and Italian. Bond that together and what do you get? Some messed up language now known as English. Also we sometimes say hello in other languages just for fun, like 你好 (nihao) from chinese, hola from spanish, bonjour from French, it's crazy. And then they aren't bothered to make a 'new' word so they use old ones with a new meaning, like snake and K.
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Sure, jellonz, but my English dictionary often gives both s and z as valid alternatives. It's not like your z or nothing! :-)
And we're not all Baldricks in UK, just as I know you are not all Dubyas! :-)
Ah, but who cares? We shouldn't lose sight of which country has the largest population of English speakers in the World .............
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C17: probably from German hurra; compare huzzah
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My apologies, jellonz. I'm not great at picking up the accent from emails! :-)
It's never fair to generalise, but I find it is much more fun to wind up the Mercans than the Kiwis. Perhaps too many of our US cousins don't know when to have a sense of humour unless someone is holding up a board saying "LAUGH NOW". With NZers, you tend to get back at least as much as you give.
Anyway, I shouldn't have said UK. As you said, Baldrick was English. That's when I'm inclined to fall back on the Scottish side of my family!
Maybe I shouldn't mock them. I often watch some of the silly behaviour in the US and fall back on that good old English word, schadenfreude. :-)
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...and in Canada we are not quite sure. "Ess?" "Zee?" "Zed?". Personally I use s and z more or less at random. Please don't copy my example. I am sure there are standard Canadian spellings. I just don't think more than a handful of people know them.
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In theory - and that's a good thing IMO. Many people in the course of business and personal correspondence, do as I do and mix match. Windows did not have Canadian English as an option last time I checked. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Sí, Percy. And Apple offers English and British English! Grrrr!
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I have had various learned people try to convince me it is all to do with the Ancient Greek origin of various verbs, and that the letter "zeta" should be rendered as "z", not "s".
This is part of what is known as "Oxford spelling", a standard followed by the Oxford University Press, inter alia. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
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sus can mean any of her, his, their, your. It depends entirely on the context. Generally where I see Usted instead of tu (or vos, as I live in Argentina) 'su' is used instead of 'tu', and hence 'sus' instead of 'tus'. I don't know whether that's a general rule or just happenchance.
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Further, I think 'su' can be a bit more formal, like "one's" in overly formal English. One must take one's belongings -> Usted debe llevar sus pertenencias.
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I think they probably want the simple present tense here, 'you recognise/acknowledge', rather than the continuous tense.
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What do you mean? It could be "usted los reconoce" but then how would we know what "los" is replacing? Direct object pronouns replace the direct object to avoid repetition. It's not needed here because if we used it then we wouldn't know what you are acknowledging. The sentence would say "You acknowledge them" instead of "You acknowledge your mistakes". :)
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Because it's a third person possessive adjective, "it" isn't a person. Also, "su" is usually (possibly only) his/her.
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"Reconozco sus errores." However, if it's not obvious from the context whether it's her, his, their, your, one, its, just specify the object, e.g., "Reconozco los errores del programa".
I have a question. How do we clarify who "sus" refers to in this example? Would it be grammatically correct to say "Usted reconoce sus errores de ella/él." to mean "You acknowledge her/his mistakes."?
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No that would not me correct. It's either "sus errores" or "los errores de él/ella". Generally you know from context who "su(s)" refers to, just like you know who "él" or "ella" refers to.
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Am I the only one thinking that the audio is way of? L instead for R. Really sounds like Le conoce not Reconoce (I know it does not make sense her, but still).
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Although 'reconocer' can be 'to own up to', it is usually best with these sentences to use the most obvious translation that makes sense, which in this case, is 'recognise'.