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"¿La universidad tiene tres bibliotecas?"
Translation:Does the university have three libraries?
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557
Questions have question marks.
Statements do not.
In fact, Spanish has two question marks (one is upside down).
557
Yes. In both English and Spanish, we can ask a question by making an indicative statement, rather than using an interrogative sentence.
Both languages do that through using rising intonation, and using a question mark in print.
That said, I do believe that DL should use the interrogative sentence form (reversed subject-object) more often, and use the indicative (statement) form less.
557
And yes, the robot did not use rising intonation. Good thing the written had a question mark!
163
" Tiene la univercidad tres bibliotecas? "
Is that correct?
Thanks in advance.
Efcharisto
71
When "three" is used in a sentence and doesn't indicate the digit, using the digit is generally frowned upon. Usually, it's wise to translate using the same style as the original.
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Just like in English you must conjugate the verb to the correct subject. 'I have' vs 'He has'. The same holds true for Spanish.
(tú) Tienes = you have
(él, ella) Tiene = he/she/it has
This site might help you with how to conjugate (or change) the verbs so that they correspond to the correct subject. A word of warning... it contains a lot of information. Don't be discouraged because most verbs in Spanish follow a pattern based on their endings (ar, er, ir).
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There are several ways to do that. The simplest one, is the one used in this exercise: You write the sentence as a statement, but you put question marks around it. When you say it, you end the sentence on a higher note to indicate it's a question. Simple as that.
71
Because you can only get one conjugated verb per clause. In this case, "does" is conjugated, and therefore "have" is not conjugated.