está bien escrito??????

Question

Hola me gustaría saber si está bien traducido la siguiente frase: "¿Qué películas solía ver tu hijo mayor?" "Which films does your eldest son used to watch?

Gracias y saludos

Answer 1

Which fims did your eldest son use to watch? Casi casi, ¡buen intento!

Answer 2

Just another opinion here- but if you wanted to say "which movies," wouldn't you say "Cuales películas" instead of "Qué películas" ?

I think Medgray is a spanish speaker learning English je je :) Cuál indicates a choice out of certain options, qué is used for 'what kind' :) - Kiwi-Girl, Jan 20, 2012

Answer 3

In speech you will sometimes hear a sentence like -

What kind of movies did your son use to watch? (use without the 'd') in it's base form)

That could be one way to translate your sentence, it's certainly not wrong.

But it does sound a little awkward and using 'used to' which is often a good translation for the imperfect tense is better avoided in questions or negative sentences, instead you could just say:

What kind of movies did your son 'like to' watch?

What kind of movies did your son watch?

or something like that

It's a little tricky I'm afraid but I hope that helps somewhat.

typo on 'here' to 'hear' - katydew, Jan 19, 2012

thanx Katy, sorry for some reason I couldn't get my comment box to work yesterday :( - Kiwi-Girl, Jan 20, 2012

Answer 4

Normalmente:

What = qué

Which = cuál

Answer 5

¿Qué películas veía tu hijo mayor? What films did your eldest son used to watch.