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- "La primavera llegará pronto."
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That's what I put and lost a heart. It was even listed as a translation under pronto. Mean old owl.
Should be accepted as a correct answer I think. Pronto can mean soon as well as early right?
Not in this context, you are changing the meaning of the Spanish phrase, rather than translating it faithfully. An early spring is only known in retrospect.
It actually is often the case that changing the tense leads to more accurate translation. But a reliable Spanish Spanish teacher has told me futero is for forecasts, with voy + used more for plans. So in English, when we predict a change of season, it's future "will" not present, though "Spring is arriving soon" is heard, it's correct when signs of spring's imminent arrival have been observed.
It doesn't really matter. "La primavera" can become either "spring" or "the spring". Both make sense and have the same meaning. It's translating the other way (English to Spanish) that you have to be careful; while "la primavera" can turn into "spring" or "the spring", both of those have to turn into "la primavera." That is, even if you only wanted to say "Spring will come soon", you would still say "la primavera" (as I understand it).
The spring means water source, the spring of 2018 was late but spring arrives earlier each year CANNOT take the definite article.
I had the same doubts and found this http://www.englishclub.narod.ru/grammar/grammar_4_5.htm . It appears that it depends on the role of "summer" in a sentence.
Thank you, krzys. Trying to internalize these rules could lead to despair, but at least it puts paid to some of the simplistic statements above.
"The spring arrives soon" is bad English, even Game of Thrones says "Winter is coming". Non native speakers need to know it is an error, that when made makes the speaker appear poorly educated. Correct usage : The spring of '77 arrived late. Now it is a specific season so definite article used.
It is wrong as it is not standard English. Word by word translation fails.
Because Spanish speaking people are uncomfortable with splitting verbs! That was my first answer, but then I changed the order to reduce risk of a lame rejection.
That's somewhat of an archaic construction in English, and is more comparable to "…hasta pronto llegará" than to "llegará pronto"
'Spring arrives soon' is wrong? Surely the same thing as 'spring will arrive soon'?
Translating Spanish futero, used for predictions & forecasts, makes "Spring arrives" poorer translation than "will arrive". More context may change that, but most often will will be right.
It's common translating between languages to consider tense changes. Quite often in English present is used for future events eg) I am playing tennis this afternoon.
"Pronto" can mean "quickly", correct? DL did not accept "The spring will arrive quickly".
A word of advice:
most of the rest of these six exercises is simply almost a repeat of the earlier extremely tedious ten Future ("going to do something") exercises completed a while back. you might therefore want to use copy and paste (cmd c and cmd v on a mac for example) on the words "going to" to save typing them countless times. life is short enough...
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I used "quickly" because it is a definition for "pronto". It was rejected and I don't know why. Any answer?
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Spring will soon arrive still rejected may 5th 2018 - divided get again by a common language!
I looked up llegara on Duolingo's web site. I had put "Spring will be arriving soon." It was marked wrong. The owl said it should be "Spring will arrive soon." Their site translated llegara as "will be arriving". Why?
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Es como dice Tom Waits:
Nunca se puede impedir la primavera Puedes estar segura que nunca dejaré de creer ...
It has said i got this one wrong several times even though i typed a valid translation each time. I even copied it exactly as what it told me the answer was last time and it counted it wrong.
Basically, this tense is something that you "will" do as opposed to "could do"?
The Spanish sentence predicts something about weather. They use futero when it is not definite. For actions, I will study more next year, takes futero in Spain. Things like could, should, might, ought involve modal verbs in conditional Spanish tense.
