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"I'm sorry, this morning my father is very busy."
Translation:Lo siento, esta mañana mi padre está muy ocupado.
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The "esta" with and without the accent are switched. Not sure when it's needed or why one has it and one doesn't but that's what they're looking for.
Not 100% sure but I believe that esta (without the accent) is translated to "this" and está (with the accent) is the conjugation of the verb estar.
Does the order of "very busy this morning" as opposed to "this morning is very busy" matter in this translation?
Yes. I googled it and found references to how to say "tomorrow morning" i.e. "manana, en la manana."
81… no, ESTA MAÑAMA means this morning. MAÑANA means tomorrow. And LA MAÑANA means morning. See the differences? In no way is it easy to confuse one for another.
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@MMM426956
I agree; it is a good explanation.
He understands the risk of confusing one with the other one. His explanation is still correct even though one sentence (inadvertently?) discounts the possibility of confusion.
I neutralized one of the downvotes. It is interesting to observe how people vote in this forum. In this case, I suspect that 99% of the downvotes were made by beginning Spanish students.
i personally downvoted because it's incorrect, actually. mañama is not a word.
I've started taking Spanish with a live teacher. She says accents are put on words that are spelled the same, but the emphasis is on the final "a" because it has a different meaning from "this." So, esta pronounced flat means "this" and esta with emphasis on the final a means "is." Hope this helps.
esta with no accent translate as (this)! está is a form of the verb (to be) he is! Two different words.
vul, you are thinking that ESTÁ is ESTA with accent. And it is not. ESTÁ and ESTA are two entirely different words For example, it is like IS and THIS are two entirely different words.
What is the diffrence between esta (is) and es (is) when would you know what one to use any examples please?
Está (the verb, to be, in a temporary sense) He is sick. Es is a permanent sense. He is American
why is the answer 'esta muy ocupado' ? shouldn't it be 'este' because it is masculine?
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Esta (with an accent) here is a verb - he IS, not esta (without accent) meaning this. So my father - the subject - is busy, so the ending of the adjective relates to the father who is masculine.
thanks 0KyfnlOF. Yeah, I was confusing the Esta and Está. need to pay more attention to the the accents. Thanks again!
How should I know when to use "lo siento" rather than "disculpe?" It marked my answer wrong...
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@lizc123
I am sorry to learn that Duolingo marked your answer wrong because you wrote "disculpe" instead of "lo siento." Perhaps you felt disappointed by the rejection?
"Disculpe" means "excuse me" and it also means "I am sorry." Maybe you already knew this when you wrote your post. But what you might not have known is that Duolingo prefers "lo siento" as the translation of "I am sorry." Duo has been picky in the past. I don't know what the future might bring. I just know that Duo has been picky in the past.
For the best explanation of the difference between these kinds of Spanish expressions, watch a short YouTube video starring María Jaramillo. It is four minutes and 48 seconds long.
Or if you would rather just read the Duolingo Forum Comments - Usage of disculpe vs perdon vs lo siento
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@muzzerz
"esta" is used instead of "este" because we must match the gender of the Spanish word, mañana. And mañana is a feminine noun.
There was only one esta in the programme so it was impossible to be correct
when i repeated the question siento was missing... realised it is a screen layout problem, I can just see the top of another word hidden by the bar along the bottom!
Im sorry, im confused as to why this sentence uses "Esta manana" for "this morning" why is "Este manana" not correct.
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@T-Bone32838
No, no. The Spanish word that you should be asking about is the object pronoun, me. You are confusing the word, mi, with the word, me.
The answer to your question won't come to you all at once. It takes time to learn to understand pronominal verbs. So give yourself time to learn to understand them.
The Spanish verb, sentirse, is a pronominal verb. The first person singular conjugation of this verb in a reflexive Spanish sentence in the simple present tense is "yo me siento." (I feel)
In this Duolingo exercise, the Spanish verb in the first phrase is transitive instead of pronominal. This is the answer to your question.
I don't feel like an english native speaker would put the father in the middle but rather directly after the comma. I might be wrong but the way it's formulated bugs me somewhat.
What s the difference between disculpe and lo siento ? When do i have to use what?
Why is it giving me a sentence in english and when I translate it give me the correct answer as an english sentence?
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Why is the question telling me to pay attention to the accents when I had to select "box" words?
Why has everything got to be absolutely gramatically perfect or you are wrong? Never mind knowing how to construct the sentence, unless it is perfect it is wrong.
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Why is afando given as the answer, ( I made a mistake in my translation) when this word has not been used before or in the translation for busy when you hover over it?
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@0KyfnlOF
This word is not in the RAE Spanish dictionary.
La palabra, "afando," no está registrada en el Diccionario.
There has been a mistake.
I imagine there are multiple ways of saying the same. Just b/c we haven't been introduced to a particular word doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just go with the flow. or use other sources to check in between d.l. lessons to learn more. the more the merrier [or not]
Come on this section of the test where you place all the words
THere is always one word missing
fix it please
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This is not the troubleshooting forum. Don't write a post and say "fix it please." Nobody is going to fix it until you report it.
