"Tenemos mucho frío esta mañana."
Translation:We are really cold this morning.
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Tenemos is also used to explain a state of condition. The thing with learning other languages is that a lot of of words can't be translated literally
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I also think that "we feel very cold" should also be accepted.
I got it right with 'We feel very cold this morning' but I thought muy = very and mucho = many or alot so wouldnt Tenemos muy frio esta manana (with a whatsamacallit above the n) be more correct?
"Frío" is a noun here.
"Muy" can only modify verbs and adjectives and other adverbs.
You need to use an adjective like "mucho". It means "a lot of".
"Mucho frío" is "a lot of cold".
Thanks for that explanation. Since I wrote my post, I've encountered other similar examples of the lack of interchangeability between muy and mucho. I wonder if there's a straightforward English equivalent to help me remember...
No, actually you can only say "Tenemos mucho frío". "Muy" isn't the right word because "tenemos" goes before
No because verdad implies the truth related meaning for really (really has more than one meaning) and here we're looking for the 'to a large extent' meaning.
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Question: Why is 'esta' used instead of 'esto'' ? Is it determined by the noun "mañana" ?
Yes, the adjective must be of the same gender and number as the noun that it modifies. For example, esta casa (this house), estas casas (these houses), esas casas (those houses) este libro (this book), estos libros (these books), esos libros (those books)
Today is hoy and esta manana was given so its got to be esta manana -> this morning.
"Mañana" = "Tomorrow"
"La mañana" = "The morning"
https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/ma%C3%B1ana
https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/ma%C3%B1ana%20por%20la%20ma%C3%B1ana
My answer "We were very cold this morning" is rejected. I am assuming it has to do with the tenses, but how do we tell whether it should be past or present tense?
Exactly, you used were instead of are where the statement is about the current situation this morning. In terms of how you tell whether its a statement about something current or in the past (or even in the future, or generally over time as a whole etc etc), it has alot to do with the 'conjugations' used. In this case Tenemos means we have (not we had). Sorry but one of the (big) limitations with Duolingo is there's no easy way to search for the tips that have been helpful in the past so I can't point you to the relevant info about it in Duo but on refreshing this exercise, I recall the exercise tips covered this topic.
I also found this page online https://www.dummies.com/languages/spanish/conjugating-the-irregular-spanish-verb-tener-to-have/ hope that helps!
Although that's a literal word by word translation of the individual Spanish words in the bigger picture when you talk about having cold it means you are cold. It's just like tenemos hambre wouldn't be said as we have hunger you'd say we're hungry.
Although a definition of mucho may not mention really, really can have more than one meaning depending on the context that it's used in.
One of those meanings is to emphasise something so a lot of.
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English would not say we ARE really cold This morning. Past tense so Would say we WERE really cold this moring.
Because esta manana means THIS Morning (rather than the morning).
Why can it not be "we are having very cold weather this morning." When you touch the word for its translation, everything in that sentence came from those drop-down translations.
Because there's no mention of the word weather in the original. There's plenty of other ways of feeling very cold that aren't at all weather related (eg going to an ice skating rink).
It is! Esta mañana means this morning however. Just like with English some Spanish words have multiple meanings and you need to check the context to get it right. For certain words the presence of an accent mark (or not) in the same word also makes a difference to the meaning.
As long as the rest is correct, there's no reason at all why that shouldn't be accepted. If this sort of thing happens again, copy all of what you wrote letter-by-letter (and not just what you think you wrote - I've had cases where spell checkers/my tablet has changed what I thought I'd put in before to something I didn't recognise), into your question/post here and we'll put it under the magnifying glass for you to work it out.