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La habrá.................

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So at the end of Mad Max 3, there is not enough room for the plane to take off. So the guy says to the Road Warrior......

No hay pista suficiente.

And he says back to him.

La habrá.

Which I take to mean "there will be" but I would translate that as "Lo habrá". But he definitely says la there. Is it because "pista" is feminine? It seems like a case of "Lo estoy" and "Lo hago" and doesn't seem to be a case of masc. or feminine there. Thanks guys.

Gracias.

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updated Oct 15, 2011
edited by jeezzle
posted by jeezzle

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Hi there, Jeezz!

It's because "la pista" is a direct object, and direct objects in Spanish require gender&number; agreement.

Lo/la/los/las habrá

there will be it/them

Subject: -

Verb: habrá

Direct object: pista (--> la), pistas (--> las), tiempo (--> lo), momentos (--> los)

Lo estoy

I am (in a particular state)

Subject: Yo

Verb: estoy

Attribute: cansado (--> lo), enferma (--> lo)

Lo/la/los/las hago

I do it/them

Subject: Yo

Verb: hago

Direct object: el aterrizaje (-->lo), la colada (--> la), los deberes (--> los), las tareas (--> las)

updated Oct 15, 2011
posted by cogumela
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No hay pista suficiente => Habrá pista suficiente => La habrá (LA stands for pista suficiente, which is feminine)

La pista no es suficiente => Será suficiente => Lo será (LO stands only for suficiente, which is neuter being an adjective)

Because haber means to have, it is likely to usually have a masculine or feminine DO as it will be dealing mostly with nouns...thus it could be lo or la before hay (but the lo would be masculine). Ser/Estar on the other hand, will usually be dealing with adjectives and thus usually be preceeded by the neuter lo.

updated Oct 14, 2011
edited by webdunce
posted by webdunce
Also, it is possible for a direct object to be neuter. For example, "Ve a la luna. Lo intentaré." Here lo refers back to whole concept of going to the moon and is, therefore, neuter and yet also a direct object. - webdunce, Oct 14, 2011
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I'd say it's because of la pista and is the difference between the (object) and it:

La = 'the' (pista) habrá will be (suficiente)

and

lo = 'it' hago I'm doing

Just guessing tho' smile

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by Kiwi-Girl