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"¿La universidad tiene tres bibliotecas?"
Translation:Does the university have three libraries?
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Questions have question marks.
Statements do not.
In fact, Spanish has two question marks (one is upside down).
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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.
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And yes, the robot did not use rising intonation. Good thing the written had a question mark!
It was my understanding that the interrogative word order was the more common usage. Has that changed? It's been quite a few years since I studied Spanish in high school.
I also had a listening exercise. I took it as a statement. Duo accepted that but showed an alternative as a question. Listening again, i heard a slight rise at the endof sentence.
Queations Have Two Question Marks, For Example ¿Que hora es? Statements Do not. I hope this helped you. :3
The university has something. However when using a helping verb we use have.
Does the university have...?
When you make questions in 3th person the verb HAS becomes HAVE because of the Auxiliar DOES. Sentence: The University has three libraries. Question: DOES the University HAVE three libraries.
The same way just without the questionmarks. Since the word order of normal sentences and questions can be the same you have a questionmark at the beginning as well, so you immediatley know what it is.
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" Tiene la univercidad tres bibliotecas? "
Is that correct?
Thanks in advance.
Efcharisto
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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.
I thought I figured out that 'tienes' is used in questions, whereas 'tiene' in statements, and in previous exercises that seemed to be true. What rule of grammar am I missing?
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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.
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Because you can only get one conjugated verb per clause. In this case, "does" is conjugated, and therefore "have" is not conjugated.
What makes this a question vs a statement? It sounded like a statement "The university has 3 libraries." It did not sound as though the speaker was asking a question. How does one know?
No, that wouldn't make sense in English. We would never say does it has...?
How does this statement Look like if you make a statement like the university has three libraries
What is the point of presenting a phrase in English to be translated and the the exact same phrase in Spanish to be translated back to English?
How do we distinguish between a statement and a question? I got this correct but I have a very hard time knowing the difference here when translating.
You don't say does it has in English. The helping verb does requires the bare infinitive.
It has.
Does it have?
