Please help me? IM SO LOST. Spanish Verb Forms??!

Please help me, I do not understand verbs in Spanish. Explanations also? :)




Escribe la forma correcta del verbo en el pretérito en la oración en español:

Yo __________ el desayuno a las ocho. (comer)


Nosotros _____________ en la clase de música ayer. (baila)


¿Tú _______________ bien anoche? (dormir)


Mi madre _____________ la ropa el sábado pasado. (lavar)


Ellos _____________ a España en julio. (viajar)


Ella ____________ la aspiradora ayer. (pasar)




Which is the CORRECT way to say Im looking for?

Estoy buscandolo.
Estoy lo buscando.
Lo estoy buscando.

Hi,

It seems that you are learning Spanish, why don`t you go over your notes and have a try, then I'll help you.

Regarding Looking for

if you say LO estoy buscando, LO refers to the object, (i'm looking for it.) "LO" = "it"

if you say ESTOY BUSCANDOLO it's correct as well. "LO" has been postponed. That's the only difference, but not in meaning.

HOWEVER

ESTOY LO BUSCANDO is incorrect.

I agree! Please look at your notes and your book before coming here for answers. It is not appropriate to fish for answers to your homework.

So, because of that I won't answer your questions about the preterite. However, the response above about "Looking for" is correct, though tentatively explained.

The direct object pronoun can be placed in one of 3 places in a sentence:

#1 - ALWAYS before a conjugated veb. For example - I want it = Lo quiero. The ONLY place the direct object pronoun ("lo" in this case) can go is before the conjugated verb.

#2 - After (attached to) the infinitive or present progressive form of the verb. For example, you could say "I need to look for the watch" and insted of repeating "watch" over and over again, you could use the direct object pronoun to replace it. So in this case it would be "lo" becuase "watch" = "reloj" which is masculine, singular and 3rd person. So in Spanish the sentence would read: "Necesito buscar el reloj" or "Necesito buscarlo"

In your question you asked about the placement of the Direct Object pronoun in relation to the present progressive. In this case you can say "Estoy buscándolo" but you HAVE to mark the "a" in the "ando" part of the word with an accent whereas you don't have to with the infinitive usage in the previous example. (Please refer to the rules of accentuation in your textbook for an explanation.) But to avoid all accentuation errors completely, follow #3 below.

#3 - BEFORE the conjugated verb when using the infinitive or present progressive. So it would be "Lo necesito buscar" or "Lo estoy buscando."

So the correct answer to your question is "Lo estoy buscando" or "Estoy buscándolo" or "Lo busco" - literally they all mean the exact same thing. However in your question you only ask how to say "I am looking for" but then in your examples you give the Direct Object pronoun "lo" - but this only applies if what you are looking for is a masculine, singular, direct object. If not, please refer to the section of your textbook on "Direct objects" for further information.

Hi BNG!

I agree with both Diegonel and Gaoleen1. We're here to help you learn Spanish, but if we do your homework how can that help you?

I see that you have the verbs after each sentence, it's only matter of conjugate them. It's easy, you can do it!
And after that we can help you by correcting the mistakes. :)

Okay, I tried doing these on my own. Here is what I got...


Yo COMO el desayuno a las ocho. (comer)


Nosotros BAILAMOS en la clase de música ayer. (baila)


¿Tú DORMIRAS bien anoche? (dormir)


Mi madre LAVADO la ropa el sábado pasado. (lavar)


Ellos VIAJO a España en julio. (viajar)


Ella PASA la aspiradora ayer. (pasar)

I'll try to help you, as you gave it a try!!! See my comments in green... :)


Yo COMO el desayuno a las ocho. (comer) INCORRECT (in my opinion, it should be "Yo comí el desayuno a las 8") It's pretérito perfecto simple, which means that the action is completed.)


Nosotros BAILAMOS en la clase de música ayer. (baila) CORRECT


¿Tú DORMIRAS bien anoche? (dormir) INCORRECT (it should be "¿Tú dormiste bien anoche?". It's the same example as sentence 1.)


Mi madre LAVADO la ropa el sábado pasado. (lavar) INCORRECT (Lavado is the participle, and it's not a fully conjugated verb. It should be "Mi madre lavó la ropa el sábado pasado".)


Ellos VIAJO a España en julio. (viajar) INCORRECT (it should be "Ellos viajaron...", as viajó is the form for third person singular, which would be él or ella.)


Ella PASA la aspiradora ayer. (pasar) INCORRECT (Pasa is presente del modo indicativo. And if you have ayer as adverb of time indicating past, it should be "Ella pasó la aspiradora ayer", Pretérito perfecto simple.)

I hope I could help and that the explanation was clear...

Thank you very much paulad. VERY HELPFUL & gave good explanations so I can understand better. Just one more quick question.
On this test I am taking the question states..

Los Pinos is the home of the Mexican King.
TRUE or FALSE?

Los Pinos is the home of the Mexican President. Would I put true or false? As of right now I put false, because it is not the king it is the President.
Your thoughts? :)

You are right!! It's false, as Mexico has no king, only president :) check this link...

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Pinos_(M%C3%A9xico)

Glad I could help!!!

Thank you very much. :)

RE: el comentario de paulad: Yo COMO el desayuno a las ocho. (comer) INCORRECT (in my opinion, it should be "Yo comí el desayuno a las 8") It's pretérito perfecto simple, which means that the action is completed.)

¿No es posible que "Yo como el desayuno a las ocho" significa que todos los días es mi costumbre comer a las ocho?

Maria

Maria, that was my first impression of the sentence as it was written.

That is, if "Estoy acostumbrado de comer el desayuno a las ocho, por eso como el desayuno a las ocho".

However, it appears that all the other sentences in the preterite so I imagine that was the intent here also.

I think both are ok. It could be " Yo como el desayuno a las 8"...referring to an everyday fact and "Yo comí el desayuno a las 8" talking about this morning.


danii

I agree with Danii... and with Vicente too!
Hahahaha :D

Las dos posibilidades son correctas. Tienen razón... :) Pero como todo el ejercicio era en pretérito, opté por COMÍ, en vez de por COMO...

Gracias por todas las respuestas y comentarios!!! :p

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Originally Posted by BNG

Thank you very much. :)

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HI bng, if you need to conjugate a verb, try Wordreference.com or Spanishdict.com, both have excellent verb conjugators. You can even introduce a verb form, that is past tense for example, and they will find the infinitive for you. :)

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Estoy acostumbrado a comer el desayuno a las ocho, por eso como el desayuno a las ocho

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Actually, the verb comer should not be used here, it must be "tomar". Desayuno includes drink and food, so comer is essentially mistaken here;)

Thank youu very much exxcéntrica. I will use those If I need them<3 :)

Exxcéntrica: I'm curious about your explanation. Is it because there are items that you drink and items that you eat at the same meal, so you have to say "tomar" because neither "comer" nor "beber" is accurate or complete?

In English, we definitely eat breakfast, even if it's only coffee!

I would like to make justa comment about the two posible verbs (comer el desayuno o tomar el desayuno)...

If I had to say it in Spanish, I would actually use the verb desayunar, which exists, is widely used and implies either food or drinks...

Do you agree??

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Originally Posted by mariaklec

RE: el comentario de paulad: Yo COMO el desayuno a las ocho. (comer) INCORRECT (in my opinion, it should be "Yo comí el desayuno a las 8") It's pretérito perfecto simple, which means that the action is completed.)

¿No es posible que "Yo como el desayuno a las ocho" significa que todos los días es mi costumbre comer a las ocho?

Maria

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Sorry, but in spanish, al least in Europe, COMER el desayuno is INCORRECT. It is said TOMAR el desayuno or DESAYUNAR. never COMER

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Sorry, but in spanish, al least in Europe, COMER el desayuno is INCORRECT. It is said TOMAR el desayuno or DESAYUNAR. never COMER

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Bueno, if you read the original post the lesson was to correctly conjugate the verb comer in the phrase comer el desayuno in the preterite.

Escribe la forma correcta del verbo en el pretérito en la oración en español:

Yo __________ el desayuno a las ocho. (comer)

So do we help with the request or tell BNG to go back and tell his/her Spanish teacher that you can't say "comer el desayuno"

(and explain that he/she knows this because she was doing the homework assignment with the help of a bunch of professional translators.):confused: :D


BTW...Thank you exxcéntrica for the grammar correction (acostumbrado a)

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Originally Posted by mariaklec

¿No es posible que "Yo como el desayuno a las ocho" significa que todos los días es mi costumbre comer a las ocho?Maria

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Your choice for the verb does not sound good for me. Eat your breakfast as "come tu desayuno" would be too literal. The verb used in Spanish is "tomar" ("Yo tomo mi desayuno a las ocho").
Besides, instructions at the beginning of the exercise were clear about the use of the "past tense". (Therefore the Present Simple tense does not sound correct).

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Originally Posted by mariaklec

&#191;No es posible que "Yo como el desayuno a las ocho" significa que todos los d&#237;as es mi costumbre comer a las ocho?Maria

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Your choice for the verb does not sound good to me. Eat your breakfast as "come tu desayuno" would be too literal. The verb used in Spanish is "tomar" ("Yo tomo mi desayuno a las ocho").
Besides, instructions at the beginning of the exercise were clear about the use of the "past tense". (Therefore, the Present Simple tense does not sound correct).