¿Cuánto tiempo tarda en lavar?

Question

¿Cuánto tiempo tarda en lavar? How long does it take to wash?

What is the infinitive for "tarda" ? Why "tarda en" and not "toma para" for "does it take" ?

Any insight on this would be helpful.

Thanks guys

Answer 1

The infinitive is Tardar and you can say both:
¿Cúanto (tiempo) tarda en lavar? or ¿Cúanto tiempo toma para lavar?
Tomar tiempo = Tardar

Tomar tiempo = tardar--gracias! Muy claro. - EugenioCosta, Jun 7, 2013

tomar = aorístico, tardar = durational? - EugenioCosta, Jun 7, 2013

Gracias por su contesta. - Acelata, Jun 7, 2013

Answer 2

Perhaps you will find this lesson helpful.

Una lección superlativa--gracias. - EugenioCosta, Jun 7, 2013

a la orden el placer es mío, gracias por el comentario :) - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 7, 2013

Thanks - Acelata, Jun 7, 2013

Answer 3

Tardar.

Tardar = inf.

"tardó tres meses en ducharse"

tres meses en la ducha--un nuevo récord olímpico. - EugenioCosta, Jun 7, 2013

muy divertido! - Acelata, Jun 7, 2013

Answer 4

Aorístico "se refiere a una acción única o acción puntual no prolongada en el tiempo".(wiki).

Tardar tiene el aspecto opuesto.

Yes but I have listened more Quenya than Greek so you can imagine that my knowledge about such a tense is not enough as to answer with property - Anormal, Jun 7, 2013

Tolkien's work on Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is important, Never bothered with any of the rest of his nonsense. - EugenioCosta, Jun 7, 2013

Pound was an aesthetic Fascist, but a cunning and penetrating critic. He notes somewhere that Chaucer is a much greater poet than Shakespeare. And SG&tGK; is a similar work of central import. - EugenioCosta, Jun 7, 2013

Answer 5

Ah, what is important about the aorist, is that though it is considered a tense, and often used for past actions, it can also be used in other times, including the present. It's main indication is that the action is pointed, precise, and perfect in a non-temporal sense, like tomar. It is used widely in grammar and philology in analysis of sentence structure and meaning, and for many languages besides Greek.