"I have a reservation."
Translation:Yo tengo una reserva.
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When the words ends in "a" it's usually feminine, when it's feminine it's "una" when it's masculine it's "un"
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There are no male words! It might help to bear in mind that 'masculine' and 'feminine' are just labels for 'types' of words - which is what gender literally means. It does not always match sex, so try not to think of them as 'male' or 'female'. One gender is (most) of the words that end with a - labelled 'feminine'; another is words that end with o - labelled 'masculine' - even if that does not match the sex of the person or animal concerned.
Because reserva is a feminine word, so you must use the feminine word, "una" and not the masculine word, "un".
Because reserva is feminine because it has an "a" at the end, "un" would be improper because "un" is used for masculine things
Idk honestly. I think we would know if we grew up speaking spanish therefore better understood it.
Un goes with the masculine and una goes with the feminine, here reserva is feminine, so we use una with the result ' una reserva. '
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Haven't come across "reserva" meaning anything else but "reserve" until...well, today (7/15/18)! The RAE's online Diccionario de la lengua española (2017) doesn't include "reservation" as another definition. Nevertheless, a generic Google search confirms that nowadays, "reserva" = "reservación." Wish there was a reference out there that records when a new word or new word definition entered the Spanish language or better still, reports the earliest known texts where said word appeared.
Wonder if this is another example of a trend far more common in French, namely "guillotining," where relatively longer words get their final syllables chopped off to streamline them, e.g. "sympa," "fac," "prof," etc.
And this is the real reason "reserva" is feminine. Guillotined nouns retain their original gender, regardless of what vowel they end with in their new forms. In the case of "reserva" the new final vowel happens to match the gender. With "foto", OTOH we get a feminine noun ending in '-o' (the full form is (feminine) "fotografía").
I believe tengo refers to yourself and tiene is when you're speaking of other people i.e. yo tengo ella tiene.
yo tengo (I have), tú tienes (you have), él/ella/usted tiene (he/she/formal has), nosotros/nosotras tenemos (we (M)/we(F) have), ellos/ellas/ustedes tienen (they (M)/they(F), formal have.
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I was taught reservación in school. However, i got mine wrong. Plus i didnt use yo, because its implied in the conjugated verb
I used "yo tengo un reservacion" and got it wrong, even though mousing over "reservation" gives both reserva and reservacion as options.
I said "Yo tengo una reservacion" and I got it correct. It must be because you guys did not use the feminine "una".
I had the same question. I think it really just depends on the area, it could be said as reserva or reservavión. Duolingo uses the most common or traditional lamguage. Which is probably why a lot of things are said differently than what I've heard.
Un is masculine for words that end in o and una is for femenine words that end in a
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The truth is that in Latin American Spanish we say reservación. Reserva has another meaning. =
La verdad es que en español latinoamericano decimos reservación. Reserva tiene otro significado.
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Tengo means "I have" and aqui means "here", so I don't really see how you could mix them up?
When it says, "I have a reservation," does it mean "I have misgivings about something," "I have a reservation (like at a restaurant)," or does it mean "I have a large piece of land where Native Americans are forced to live against their will"? What is the context?
I accidentally typed tengonuna and it didn't mark it as a typo. This is a mistake by the app and tengonuna is not actually something you can write, right?
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It is indeed not part of the Spanish language. I could imagine Duolingo accepting it with a warning that you made a typo.
I put Yo tengo reserva but I also thought Yo tengo una reserva was the right answer. So how is my answer correct when indeed una was neccessary for the sentence? I thought an A at the end of a word made it feminine therefore making una necessary to place in front of reserva.
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"Una" is for feminine words, "un" is for masculine words. If you find it difficult to remember the difference, use a mnemonic device. E.g.: You're feminine (well, female, but ignore the difference), your name has several "a"-s, so the extra "a" in "una" must be for feminine words. (It doesn't have to be completely logical, as long as it helps you recall which is which.)
If I remember "a" as in daughter and "o" as in son I then have nino = boy - nina=girl (sorry my phone won't let the ~ go over the n) Then sposa = wife and sposo = husband. Can you think of others?
Where to complain My leader board score is not increasing even though i am completing my lesson
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Yeah, that's been happening here too. Are you in one of the new metal clubs? Yerz truly put in 50 xp's on the iPhone ap but the score on the leader board didn't budge at all, even though the xp count on the "learning" page did. Tried shutting down the iPhone and then rebooting it (ie, turning it back on) and--oh the joy--the xp's on the leaderboard were up to date!
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'En' means 'in'. 'Una' means 'a'. Hay una mesa en la habitación: There is a table in the room.
"Yo" is optional. The subject is included in the verb conjugation. Email me when you get it fixed. You are teaching people to expect pronouns where they won't often here them.
I wrote correct and it said it's wrong and correct answer was the same a wrote
Hola! I can understand why reserva is a "una reserva", however I was wondering about reservacion.... why isn't it "un reservacion".... I do not have the experience other than just a feeling of sounds...i am probably wrong, but anyhow...
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Well actually all Spanish words ending in -ción are without exception female. So you use una and la with those.
The drop down suggestions gave 'en' as a possible translation for 'a' but I was marked wrong for writing 'Yo tengo en reserva'. Can you tell me why? Thanks.
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Well the drop down suggestion was wrong in giving you 'en' as an option. 'En' means 'in'. Yo tengo en reserva is not a correct sentence. It literally says 'I have in reservation'. This makes no sense in either Spanish or English.
Thanks for the clarification. If it comes up again, I'll make sure to report it.
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Well, the text to translate was "I have a reservation." If you would say "Yo tengo una pregunta.", it would mean "I have a question."
There is no decipher between man and woman in the sentence i have a reservation. This is the confusion here. How do you know if the "I" in that sentence is a man or female? Is there a Spanish work for "a" other then un or una?
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There's no way to tell from the words whether the speaker is male of female. This is quite common in languages. E.g., in English you can't tell whether the person saying "I have a reservation." is male of female either. Usually, it's only in the third person that you distinguish between he and she (and it), and in the third person plural some languages will distinguish between he-s and she-s, though English just uses "they" in those cases.
However, it's "una reserva" because in Spanish "reserva" is feminine. Likewise, it would be "Yo tengo un hotel." (I have a hotel.) because in Spanish "hotel" is masculine.
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You don't need to know wether or not the I is a man or a woman. The word reservación is the female in this sentence.
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El is for masculine words, usually ending in -o and and la is for feminine words usually ending in -a. El chico: the boy, la chica: the girl. For plural you add an s. Los chicos: the boys, las chicas: the girls.
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Words ending in -o are usually masculine, words ending in -a are usually feminine: el chico; the boy, la chica; the girl. But there are exceptions like el dia and la mano.
Numbers are masculine, letters are feminine: el dos, la eñe.
Typical male endings are: -or -aje, -ismo and -m(i)ento: El doctor, el garaje, el socialismo, el monumento.
Words ending in -dad, -ción, -sión, -tud and -ez are without exception feminine: La ciudad, la acción, la admisión, la juventud, la honradez.
A lot to remember. It helps if you make sentences with words of each category and remember those sentences. I could give an example, but it is better if you make up your own sentence, that has meaning to you. Good luck!
easiest way to remember is: if it ends with a = feminine ends with o masculine.
but not always
How can you tell the difference between es and un/una I have been stuck on it lately Like this if you have had the problem too
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What exactly are you having difficulties with? Es is a conjugation of the verb ser (to be: he is) and un/una is the translation of the indefinite article a or an (a book, an apple). Or do you mean the difference between un and una? You use un for male words (un libro: a book) and una for female words (una hija: a daughter).
Why do I have to say "yo tango" instead of just "tango"? Isn't it the same?
Ha, I just noticed it's because of a spelling error, please disregard this question!
"reservacion" is considered to be feminine genre, so the article must match its genre. Instead of "un" it should have been "una".
I don't think there's a way to know if something is masculine or feminine, you just need to memorize it.
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Well, there are some guidelines that can help you determine the gender of the word. First of all you have the ending of the word in -a or -o of course. See my comment above. And words ending in -ión, -tud, -dad en -tad are feminine. So religión, actitud, felicidad and amistad are feminine. You have to memorize those endings though. Making a sentence with words with all the different female endings and memorizing that sentence might help.
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