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Question

Notes from work. They have no proper place so I am putting them here. Gracias de adelante por ayudarme. (gracias de antemano....are they the same?) Gracias.

1. Apuesto que Chantelle es lo/la mas grande. I bet that Chantelle is the biggest one. Is it lo only, not la? Gracias.
2. Before being sure, you should check. Antes de estar seguro, se puede revisar.
3. Antes de siendo seguro.

!!!!!!!! It was many pages long!!!!!!!!!!! - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

It took me like 20 minutes to type all that, at a very fast pace!!!!! I hate this system. :( :( :( :( :( - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

It was like 10 scroll pages long. - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

I'm not typing it all back in. - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

I'm going for a walk. - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

With really long stuff you might want to type it into a word processor, then copy and paste it into the little box. - KevinB, Apr 30, 2010

horrible.... - margaretbl, Apr 30, 2010

From now on I will. - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

ouch - nizhoni1, Apr 30, 2010

Answer 1

Huh?

Well for what it's worth: "Chantelle es lo más grande" - She´s the greatest.

"Chantelle es la más grande" - She´s the biggest (she probably doesn't want to hear that).

Awesome so one word makes that much of a difference. I was wanted to say that she is the biggest (noun excluded) can that still work? - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

i thought that " - sunrise, Apr 30, 2010

'gran" meant great.. confused. Can you explain, por favor? - sunrise, Apr 30, 2010

Answer 2

I was wanted to say that she is the biggest (noun excluded) can that still work?

Does "(noun excluded)" mean something like deleting an expletive?

In that case, it may depend on what the deleted noun is, and just how forceful you want to be about it.

But it would be "la", in that case. "Chantelle es la mas grande / la mayor (considerable string of nouns, adverbs, expletives and sputteing excluded). "

Good stuff. - jeezzle, Apr 30, 2010

Answer 3

Antes de estar seguro, hay que revisar (you could also say, "...mejor revisar")

Answer 4

•Before being sure, you should check. Antes de estar seguro, se puede revisar. •Antes de siendo seguro

Did you get the others? Maybe... Hay que revisar antes para estar seguro/a. (If what you meant was - check before you are 'sure')