A question about word order in a statement.

Question

Can someone give an example, of a statement in English and the same statement in Spanish? Thankyou. Corrections are always appreciated.

¿Puede alguien dar un ejemplo, de una declaración en inglés y la misma declaración en español? Gracias.

I think that we have provided many, many examples of this in the Word of the day and the Picture of the day where we say something in Spanish then translate it to English. What else is there? I can't think of a thing. - Daniela2041, Feb 5, 2016

I think you have done the same thing in your question. - Daniela2041, Feb 5, 2016

Gracias por la confirmación. Este repuesta, fue interesante. - 00cc0117, Feb 5, 2016

I think in your translated spanish question, the verb "puede" and the infinitive "dar" should be connected. "Alguien" should go in the front or the back of "puede dar". - cmusba, Apr 18, 2016

Answer 1

Maybe you're looking for something like the following:

Las víctimas del terremoto sufren. Sufren las víctimas del terremoto. (In Spanish the word order is flexible and is often determined by which element of the sentence is deemed most important. Though common in Spanish, English speakers have to learn to parse sentences like the second one.)

The victims of the earthquake are suffering. (In English the subject almost always comes before the verb. We native English speakers wouldn't know what to make of "Are suffering the victims of the earthquake.")

"deemed most important" This is important to know. - 00cc0117, Apr 19, 2016

Thankyou Ann. :) - 00cc0117, Apr 19, 2016

You're welcome, David. Hope it helped. - AnnRon, Apr 20, 2016

Answer 2

Quite a few words have the same equivalents in Spanish. Ideal, color, and television are just to name a few.