"Now I am going to show it to you."
Translation:Ahora te lo voy a demostrar.
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I got "demonstraroslo" as the correction to my wrong answer. Can somebody explain where the "-os-" particle comes from? Thanks in advance.
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“Os” is the reflexive pronoun for “vosotros” (mostly used in Spain) It is odd that Duolingo would give you that as a correction, because Duolingo does not teach “vosotros” as it is not common in Latin America. Sometimes its corrections seem sort of random!
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Can you also say "mostrar"? When I entered it, it was marked wrong :(
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I believe it should be correct. Duolingo used “mostrar” very similarly in one of its own sentences. (“La policía mostró tu foto por el museo” or something like that)
I was wondering about that too. I used Mostrar and I am thinking it should be correct.
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Very simply, the word show is mostrar. Demostrar is to demonstrate. I'm not sure why they used it here.
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Would “Ahora te voy a demostrarlo” be correct? Because demostrar is an infinitive?
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Keep the "te lo" together: Ahora voy a demostrártelo. (Accent mark to keep the stress where it was originally.)
studyspanish.com (Grammar Unit Four)
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"Ahora os lo voy a mostrar."? Did anyone else get this as the correct answer? Why would there be an "os" there?
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I put 'les lo voy a demostrar' which I believe also to be a correct answer, but perhaps I should have also put 'a Ustedes' at the end. Os is the familiar plural form of 'you', which is used in Spain, but not in S.America, so I guess it just depends on where you are and how many alternative answers have been programmed in as to whether our answers are accepted or not. If anyone has a helpful comment to make on this it would be gratefully received.
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I did the same, but Marcy Brown above writes: Keep the "te lo" together: Ahora voy a demostrártelo. (Accent mark to keep the stress where it was originally.) studyspanish.com (Grammar Unit Four)
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Mostraré is “I will show” and voy a mostrar is “I am going to show.” So it is a very similar meaning but not the answer that Duolingo is looking for.
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I got "mostrarosla" as my correction - what is this...ive taken several years of Spanish prior to Duolingo, albeit years ago, but I never saw this added to anything...where does this ending come from and what does it mean?
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Read the response by LF9zZ earlier in this thread, near the top. He (or she) explains it.
