Can I use two conjugated verbs in the same sentece?

Question

I'm working on my spanish project and I'm not sure how i would write this sentence. Someone please help me out!

English: The meals I ate were very delicious. Spanish: Las comidas que comí fueron muchas deliciosas.

^ Is this right? Can I have "comí" and "fueron" in my sentence like that?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Sí puedes, inlcuso a veces se usan hasta tres formas verbales en una misma oración. En este caso yo diría:

"Todo lo que comí estaba delicioso". "Todo lo que comí" works as a noun.

I was just about to say that! It isn´t "double verb conjugation" because that first part works as an entire noun. What was delicious? "All of the food I ate" - missy8888, Apr 5, 2012

Answer 2

Yes you can - for example: todo lo que comí estaba buenísimo.

You'll notice I used estar instead of ser there. You have also inadvertently run into the ser vs estar question je je. I know it seems like you would use ser because you are describing the quality of the food but I think that when it comes to describing a meal it is seen as giving your opinion and so I believe you should use estar. But do wait for a native speaker to comment You might find this interesting.

We haven't learned imperfect past tense stuff yet so is estaba conjugated appropriately for my sentence? - garywangster, Apr 5, 2012

Answer 3

We haven't learned imperfect past tense stuff yet so is estaba conjugated appropriately for my sentence?

I would say:

(Edit: gracias a Caefuego) - Las comidas is redundant) - better to say:

Todo lo que comí estaba muy deliciosas.

Remember too that mucho/a/s means a lot - but muy is 'very'

I am sorry, but "comidas que comi" is redundant. - -cae-, Apr 5, 2012

thanx Cae - I was shying away from using that (without thinking I just put todo in my example above) but you're quite right, gracias :) - Kiwi-Girl, Apr 5, 2012

Answer 4

We haven't learned imperfect past tense stuff yet so is estaba conjugated appropriately for my sentence?