Deportes o Deporte?

Question

In English, we say sports ( she does sports) but in Spanish, I believe it is "ella hace deporte" and not "ella hace deportes"? Why is this so? Or am I mistaken and there is actually no difference in the two?

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Please edit your post to "deporte" and "deportes"- I do not believe "desporte" is a Spanish word. :) - bosquederoble, Mar 1, 2016

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I think it will be Desporte - ghosal_srijoni, Mar 1, 2016

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thanks for the profile tips and question correction everyone! :) - charislimyt, Mar 2, 2016

Answer 1

In Spain we say "yo hago deporte " in singular, with the sense of doing exercise.

You are very fat you have to do exercise. Estas muy gord@ tienes que hacer ejercicio/deporte.

When we are referring to sports , in general terms, we say "yo practico deporte",also in singular. but if we want to specify that they are more than one , we say: yo practico varios/algunos/2/3... deporteS. I have never heard (yo practico deportes).

-Mi hijo practica deporte en el colegio.

-¿Y que deporte practica?

-baloncesto.

-My son practices sports at college.

-what is the sports he practices.?

-basketball.

-Mi hijo practica varios/algunos/dos... deportes en el colegio.

-¿cuales?

-futbol, baloncesto......

Sorry for my English, i have not taken the necessary time to try to correct it. Sorry again. Estoy un poquito lazy.

Corrected & recorrected.

If you change expecificate to specify, ear to heard, and take to taken I think your English would be very good. And I think your answer is very helpful. :) - bosquederoble, Mar 1, 2016

Gracias por las correcciones, los ánimos y el cumplido. ear y take me sonaban mal al escribirlos pero hoy estaba un poco vagoneta para contrastarlo. gracias - 000a35ff, Mar 1, 2016

De nada. :) - bosquederoble, Mar 1, 2016

your answer was very detailed. Also, your English is very good, and in return, "necessary" is spelled with 2 's' and i would use "I HAVE never heard OF (yo practico...)". Gracias por tu ayuda! :) - charislimyt, Mar 2, 2016

no hay de que. - 000a35ff, Mar 2, 2016

Answer 2

Ella practica (not hace) deportes. (Los míos son el ciclismo y el Karate.)

gracias por tu ayuda :) thank you for the helpful answer and image! - charislimyt, Mar 2, 2016

Answer 3

If you notice, Daniela´s image shows various different sports and so the plural deportes is used, but we also use the singular form deporte when talking about one specific sport just as in English, ie: El deporte que me gusta más que nada es el esquiar / Él practica el deporte de golf los fines de semana.

gracias por tu ayuda :) thank you for elaborating on Daniela's answer! - charislimyt, Mar 2, 2016

¿más que nada? more than nothing doesn´t make sense in English. but it means, more than anything, right? - antonmo, Mar 2, 2016

Answer 4

And believe this man, if you will.

I note he uses ' hacer', but this may be local, we could go and check him out? - annierats, Mar 1, 2016

gracias por tu ayuda :) thank you for the interesting answer. good way to learn! :) - charislimyt, Mar 2, 2016

Answer 5

Deporte