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Nunca caminabamos.... We were never walking ...it should be accepted! Anyway it is a accurate translation than the one it is given to me : we never walked..
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''We were never walking'' es algo como ''nunca estuvimos caminando'', it can be understood also, but it is not the same in spanish.
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"en" means in/on in English. So it should be accepted as such. IN the street is just as correct as ON the street.
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If I hear "in the street", I imagine it being on the pavement with the cars rather than on the sidewalk with the pedestrians. In any case, in Spanish it is always "en la calle".
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I think so. At the very least I'd be interested in knowing how, in Spanish, you'd say "walk in that street", which is normal English.
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It is something they will correct, however in Spanish they do no think of something as IN a street. To them, that would be literally inside the street, so on the street would be more correct translation. Even in English it really should be on.
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Can someone please explain why "We would never walk on that street" is incorrect? I understand that one context, as in "I would never do that!", is incorrect but I meant it as in "My dad would (never) read to us after dinner."
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You touched on it yourself: in the negative, "would" means more than a simple denial; it implies an outright refusal. That's more emphatic a translation than this sentence calls for.
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Camin(ábamos) is used because its 'descriptive'? Need help in understanding when its imperfecto v preterito...
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Caminaba is 'I was walking', so caminabamos could be 'we were walking'. So could the sentence be 'we were never walking on that street'?
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That, of course, was before we became black belts in martial arts and got our CCW permits.
to me "we never walked that street" (without ANY preposition) sounds good english although a little poetic. What would be the nearest spanish translation for it?
I completely agree, I got it marked incorrectly for using road... Where I come from (South Africa) we would always use the term road rather than street, but both are equally applicable.
