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Yep! In French: J'écris mes lettres propres / I write my own letters. propio, propre, proprius.
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Shouldn't the English translation of this really be, "I write my own letters." ?
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Why is it not propios? I thought if the subject is Yo the the verb must be "o" as well. I get why its plural.
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Propias because cartas is feminine and it needs to match cartas.
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ely1059, escribo is the verb. The adjective needs to match the noun. ^_^
masculine words usually end with 'o/e' while feminine usually ends with 'a'. However, there are exceptions to this rule
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Thanks, I was going to ask which one is the right one: propio, propia, propios or propias...
Is it because the ending of cartas with -as so propias the best match here and not propia? I just want to make sure my understanding about this matter..
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- In the sentence, escribo is the verb. Escribir turned to Escribo, because of the subject Yo.
- Propio is the adjective, must match the noun carta.
- Carta is a feminime noun (la carta = article la- infront of noun indicating carta is feminime), so propio changed to propia.
- Since the noun cartas in the sentence is plural, then, propia became propias.
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Plural is really easy (at least in this case). "Carta" means "letter," "cartas" means "letters." "Propria" would be used with "carta," because "carta" is singular, and "proprias" would be used with "cartas," because "cartas" is plural. Hope this helps.
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Yes, it can also be translated as, "I write my own letters." Either way is perfectly fine.
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What was the original translation? It looks like they change it, michisjourdi.
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I read every comment made with that angry Ichigo avatar as though you're saying it angrily. It amuses me.
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Here's a link that is a good introduction. You'll find this is the basics and you there are other links as well.
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Link is dead. This one works: http://spanish.about.com/cs/grammar/a/whereadjective.htm
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Correspondence is a completely different word than the word for letters! One is correspondencia, the other is cartas.
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Whether an adjective goes before or after a noun depends what is meaning to be said and tradition. I mean the rules of the game. For example, if one was wanting to say, a good man in Spanish it would be, "un buen hombre." If one wanted to say, a great man, it would be, “un gran hombre." And, "gran," here is short for, "grande." When "grande" is used before a noun it is always cut down in size like that. But you can put it behind the noun, also. "Un hombre grande." The meaning then changes because of the different placement. Now it says, a large man, or big man. If you wanted to emphasize this you could say, "¡un hombre muy grande!" A really big man!
If you were using a color the adjective would go behind. "Un hombre azule." A Blue Man.
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indianburger, I answered your question a whole year behind the time you asked it. You should already well know the answer now if you had continued with your studies. But I know that at this point in the lessons there are others with the same question rattling around in their heads. Your question needed answering, so did.
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I write to myself all the time. Talk to myself, too. Fortunately, I am usually in agreement with myself.
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Does "Yo escribo" only mean: 'I write'? Or can it be used for the present tense 'I am writing' as well?
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I believe you're right, but no one has addressed it appropriately. See my comment above.
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I think that cartas means cards when it's talking about playing cards. I could be wrong about that. Also naipes are playing cards.
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Right. There are most commonly no OPTIONS. The other words are there most commonly for our education. They most commonly show other uses of a word.
Who started using the term, "OPTIONS," anyway. I'd love to kick his butt for confusing peeps like he has.
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yo escribí. I wrote
tú escribiste. You wrote
él escribió. He/She wrote
nosotros escribimos. We wrote
ellos escribiero. They wrote
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Yo escribía Tu escribías Él/ella/Ud escribía Nosotros escribíamos Vosotros escribíais Ellos/Ellas/Uds. escribían
This is the imperfect form for "i wrote"...there also the preterit form too.
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Is 'carta' or 'tarjeta' more common? Because my Spanish teacher made a bit of a point of using 'tarjeta'. Are they completely interchangeable?
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I believe 'tarjeta' is mostly used as a word for 'card', like credit card. I've never heard or seen anyone use it for 'letter'.
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Carlaquest, what reagion were you referring too. So many different with different usages of words.
so here's a question: since the adjective has to match the noun gender, in a sentence like "her dress is pretty" ella is feminine, and vestido is masculine, so is su vestido es bonita or bonito accurate?
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It would be: "Su vestido es bonito." The adjective has the same gender as the noun it modifies. So, since "vestido" is masculine, you would use "bonito". "His, her," and "it" are all "su".
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"I am writing...." is also a correct translation of "escribo". Context would tell us which would be the correct tense to use. Since there is no context here, only one sentence, I just thought which would be the most commonly used sentence. I figured "I write my own letters" would be something I would say more than "I am writing my own letters", so that's what I put. BTW, because it can be translated both ways, DL usually accepts either the English simple present or the present continuous tense for the Spanish simple present tense.
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Since you asked, "cards" is just one of several meanings for "cartas." Many of the words we are learning can have a number of different English meanings. It is not in Duolingo's interest or aim to service them all. This is basic Spanish and is not meant to be all encompassing. It is enough to learn the primary fundamental meaning of a Spanish word then move on to the next instead of getting bogged down contending with all the different ways a sentence might mean or can be said in English. After all, these are Spanish lessons.
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This is an important phrase to know. Otherwise someone might think you are using a ghostwriter for your letter writing.
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It is hard to good ghostwriters these days, or even any. Mine all flew off to become ghostwriters in the sky.
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Oh, poor baby. Here is a letter all for you. "A." Here is another! "B." And one more to grow on. "C."
There, that should hold you for a while. And, too, now you know your A, B, Cs.
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'propias' would be with a feminine plural noun; propios would be with a masculine plural noun. Mis cartas proprias. Mis caballos propios.
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you must remember the gender of the noun. Carta is LA carta. the particle la, indicates the carta is a feminime noun, so you use propia. And since the cartas in the sentence is plural, propia turned to propias.
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No, "to own" is a different part of speech, and a different word in Spanish.
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How come in this case its "mis" instead of "mi". Is mis used whenever the following word is plural?
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Correct! "Cartes" is plural so the possessive pronoun for "my" will be plural as well.
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What's wrong with"I'm writing my own letters" , How could you distinct : Progressive and General sentences in Spanish => not good in grammar anyways!
