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"Please, I need to use the car."
Translation:Por favor, yo necesito usar el carro.
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Because "necesitar" was already conjugated (changed to "necesito"), and you only personalize the first verb in a series.
This is the same reason we don't say in English "She wants goes to the movies." and instead leave "to go" in the impersonal infinitive form (She wants to go to the movies.).
Wow... think i got my first HINT at how the heck a "conjugated" verb actually changes... I knew it would begin to mean something at some point! Day 42! (Yes i am embarrased!, lol)
Its important to know, I am taking a Spanish class at school and knowing how verbs conjungate has helped me a lot. Just look it up, there are plenty of charts online
Would be nixe if Duolingo would include a lesson on it before getting to the set of skills. Seems like pretty fundamental knowledge
This definitely helps. Checking out the lightbulb on each Duolingo lesson/tree topic can help with guidance on the lesson.
Never be embarrassed because you don't know something. We're all learning all the time. I'm sure you know plenty of things others don't! Good luck with the Spanish!
I appreciate that Jean! I'm on day 9.. I have it as an option in final year of college so i'm prepping some understanding beforehand in lockdown, i'm not usually linguistic but i want to try challenge myself to learn a language!
That's all very well if you know what conjugate and impersonal infinitive forms are. We haven't all learnt those terms in our own language.
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Fair point. I try to leave examples when I use grammar terms like that, but I'll be more explicit in the future.
I agree, im lost most of the time and just have to memorize what goes together.
So can I do one or the other?
Can I say "yo necesito usar" as well as "yo necistar uso"
This was gold. I finally understood all those lessons that I "completed" somehow. Thanks a lot writchie4
Im still lost with these explanations. I think you need to be an English major to understand this
Both words are used more or less depending on the region.
I keep doing it exactly how it wants and then is says correct solution and says to do it all over again
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It has done nme the same way. I just decided to keep going just the same. The same correct answer and question kept repeating also. So I just chalked it up to making sure I know, and not just guessing. I like that part though.
How do you know when to use 'uso' and when to use 'usar' b/c they are both used along with 'yo'??
Usar is the infinitive. To explain the difference, let me use a wrong English sentence: he wants uses the car. Uses is wrong: this should be to use, the infinitive. So the same sentence in Spanish. El quiere usar el coche, not el quiere uso el coche.
This should accept the mainland Spain use of 'coche' for car. Duolingo does not specify anywhere that it is teaching South American Spanish so it is totally inaccurate to not accept coche for car. Very poor.
Checked with Spanish tutor, she informed me that carro is South American spanish, but when starting dualingo this is not specified. TBH it is what it is to me, but if wanting specific a bit unfair!
I am staying in Spain and they do not use carro for a car, they think I am saying expensive. The word they use is coche
Expensive is "caro", not "carro". Bad thing about duolingo is that they teach Latin-American Spanish, not European, castellano. Same for Portuguese. It would be better that you could choose your region so that you learn the applicable vocabulary and pronunciation.
I agree, it would be cool if you could choose what dialect the language is, because even though you will still be understood speaking Latin-American Spanish in Spain, it might be harder to understand the locals.
"Usar" is the infinitive verb. It means "to use". So you don't need the "a", which also means "to". I hope this helps.
Actually, because I was having so much trouble with this, and not understanding why, you deserve 2 lingots... Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I think this may be the correct reason why because on other ones, it has me write "necesita usa" and it said I was right... that was after trying to use "necesita usar" multiple times and being told I was wrong. Thank you for sharing! A lingot for you! :-)
I have such a big problem with all the verbs and I am not sure if I will ever understand it, but I have had it explained a million different way and it is still so dang confusing.
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Por favor, yo necesito usar el coche ('el coche' es una palabra castellana y se debe usar).
I learned Spanish at school in England over 30 years ago & am refreshing (almost starting again) with this course. There are a couple of words that are different to what I learned before. Car was el coche not el carro, a ticket I think was un bilete not un boleto. Are the words I was taught old fashioned? Are there different nuances to these words or is there a difference between the words used in Spain & words used in other Spanish speaking parts of the world? Thanks..
Your knowledge of Spanish is not old fashioned at all: you learned Spanish from Spain, like I did, not Spanish from Latin America. Be careful with the word "cojer" in americalatina
You know what people? Positive Mental Attitude! You can do it! Try your hardest and you can achieve your goal of learning Spanish! God bless!
Can someone please tell me the difference using these: uso, usa, usar, usas, please and thanks
The infinitive of the verb use is usar. Yo uso = I use, Tu usas = you use, el/ella usa = he/she uses, nosotros usamos = we use, vosotros usais = you use (plural), ellos/ellas usan = they use
How do you know in english that you have to write "to use" instead of "use" or "uses"? It is a matter of knowing when to use the infinitive form. I already used the infinitive form in both sentences above. Same with usar and usa: usar is the infinitive form.
Thank you for that clear explanation, writchie4. You confirmed my thoughts as to why uso was incorrect.
On previous "I need" statements the word "Yo" was not used. The statement began with "Necesito…" What is the rule for when to use "Yo" and when not to use "Yo" before necesito?
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You can basically always leave it out.
Duolingo tends to include subject pronouns because they're trying to introduce the grammatical concepts (i.e. so you can see how "yo" corresponds to "I" in English). You don't see these pronouns used much in natural Spanish writing, but it's not wrong to include them.
usar is not the Tú derivative; that is "usas". If you look at the English sentence: I need to use the car, the to use is the infinitive form. The same in the Spanish sentence: usar is the infinitive form. In this sentence you conjugate the verb necesitar, not the verb usar
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"Please, I need to use the car." Translation: Por favor, yo necesito usar el carro." Above is from Duo, why is USAR use by Duo?
How to conjugate -ar verbs. With yo: take off -ar and add -o With Tu: take off -ar and add -as With El, Usted, and Ella: take off -ar and add -a With Nosotros and Nosotras: take off -ar and add -amos With Ustedes, Ellos, and Ellas: take off -ar and add -an
Why am I being told the correct translation is "Por favor, preciso usar el carro" . I had the supposedly correct translation.
Because that would translate to "please, I need I use the car."
Whenever you see "to (verb)" then it's safe to say that verb is in the infinitive form, which is "usar" in this case.
It would be uso if you were saying "I use the car" but because necesitas was already and the correct gender form: "necesito", it goes back to the original form of the word: "usar"
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why can i not use 'tengo que usar' instead of 'necesito' - they translate to the same thing
To my knowledge, tener is a possesive verb, and would make the sentence similar to "I have the use of the car" (which makes very little sense) and instead of "I need to use the car. "Need" and "have" are used interchangeably in English, however, are not interchangeable in Spanish
When using tener to describe a feeling, it maintains this possesive form, as in "Yo tengo hambre" which directly translates to "I have hunger". This does not make sense in English however, and is thus translated to "I am hungry"
" Tengo que" is not the same as "tengo". Tengo is possesion, "tengo que" is obligation
When is it okay to leave out the pronoun? For example, if I put "Por favor, necesito usar el carro" instead of "yo necesito", is there any reason why it should be one or the other?
No, there is no reason. The complete sentence is with the subject 'Yo necesito', but it is not common spoken language, maybe unless you really stress the subject. You can say "No voy a hacerlo" in general. But if you want the stress that not you but someone else will do it, you probably say "Yo no voy a hacerlo, pero tú sí".
Why do you cover up the wrong answers?I have no idea what I do wrong when I can't compare mine to the correct one.
Why didn't coche work? It's a car in Spanish-Spanish. Should be counted like zumo / jugo
Once again, the hover-over text is only there to confuse and bewilder. Thanks Owly.
Where d o the tips hide as i would like to tead then again but seems it like to beat me in the head with the same question over and over in different tenses and no way to correctly answer until luck has come in after uter confusion has ended learning.
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When you click on a lesson from the home page, you'll get two options: "Tips" and "Start". Not all lessons have tips/notes, but most do.
Looking at the conjugation of usar I cannot find "usar" listed in any of the tenses. Why is it not uso (I use)?
