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Laísmo: La dijeron que se callara (They told her to shut up). Normative: Le dijeron que se callara. The person who is told something is an indirect object in Spanish, and the substituting pronoun is the same for both genders. Loísmo: Lo dijeron que se callara (They told him to shut up). Normative: Le dijeron que se callara. See above.
The sentence "Michael no cree que Panamá sea un país hispanohablante" ("Michael does not believe that Panama is a Spanish-speaking country") only presents Michael's opinion of Panama and the speaker is being neutral of it, while "Michael no cree que Panamá es un país hispanohablante" (same meaning as above) presents an intervention of the ...
Que se cierren las puertas. = "Let the doors be closed.", "Have the doors closed." With a verb that expresses wishing, the above sentences become plain subjunctive instead of direct commands: Deseo que venga el gerente. = "I wish for the manager to come." Quiero que se cierren las puertas. = "I want the doors (to be) closed."
Se metió en la cama sin despertarla = "He got in bed without waking her." When the object of the preposition sin is a clause introduced by que (alternatively interpreted as a compound conjunction, sin que), the verb in the clause must be in the subjunctive mood: Se metió en la cama sin que se despertara = "He got in bed without her waking up."
As in English, the clock face is also split into four quarters: times exactly on the hour are expressed using en punto ("o'clock"); "quarter past" or "quarter after" is expressed using the phrase y cuarto; a time thirty minutes past the hour is expressed using the phrase y media ("half past" or "-thirty"); and a time 15 minutes before the hour ...
(Spanish: ¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como este? ) [ 1 ] is a 1978 comedy film directed by Fernando Colomo from a screenplay by Colomo and Jaime Chávarri which stars Carmen Maura . It helped to consolidate the comedia madrileña , or urban comedy, film trend that emerged during the Transition in Spain.
On April 14, 1997, Univision launched Despierta América as a Spanish language competitor to NBC's Today, ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning. Despierta América is known for coining the catch phrase, "échate pa' acá" ("Come here"), which is a segment regarding news and gossip about Latin entertainers.
Eva, ¿qué hace ese hombre en tu cama? (Spanish: "Eva, What is That Man Doing in Your Bed?"), also known as Qué bravas son las solteras (Spanish: "How Wild Single Women Are") is a 1975 comedy film co-produced between Mexico, Spain and Puerto Rico, [2] [3] directed by Tulio Demicheli [4] and starring Manolo Escobar, Paca Gabaldón, Iris Chacón, Olga Breeskin, Jorge Lavat and Antonio Garisa.