from - desde or de
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I have a sentence where I say "The pictures are from the book..."
Los ilustraciónes son desde/de el libro..."
It should be desde or de?
Rosita
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updated Oct 23, 2010
posted by rosita_raji
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Use de. De can mean where something or someone comes from. In this case, the pictures come from a book.
Los ilustraciones son del libro.
You don't need the accent mark when ilustraciones is plural, and de + el form the contraction del, always. It's not optional like it is in English.
Desde also means from, but more in the sense of from one point in space to another, or one point in time to another.
updated Oct 23, 2010
posted by KevinB
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Use DE, desde is more like the English from and since which corresponse more to dates. But objects, and I believe dates that are fixed, always use DE.
updated Oct 23, 2010
posted by Zachary-Santamaria
Forget about what I said about "fixed dates" I realized afterwards that I don't really know about that for sure, but objects generally take DE. - Zachary-Santamaria, Oct 23, 2010
