Can somebody please check this to see if it's right?

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Choose the correct verb form. Are my answers right?

1. Ayer me duelen (doler) la cabeza después de la clase de español.
2. ¿A quién le toca (tocar) limpiar la casa?
3. ¿Te molesta (molestar) las cucarachas?
4. Nos encantar (encantar) la película anoche.

You need to post your attempts. We are not here to do homework for you, but we will help once you have posted your own answers. - rac1, Aug 23, 2016

I changed it. Those are the answers that I wrote myself but erased them. - No_one, Aug 23, 2016

Much better. - rac1, Aug 23, 2016

Is it right, or nah? - No_one, Aug 23, 2016

One of them looks right, I would have chosen different answers for 3 of them. One isn't even conjugated- pay attention also to present and past, but also what is the subject of the verb. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 23, 2016

Can you please be more specific. - No_one, Aug 23, 2016

Anoche and ayer= past. The only one I agree with is the le toca. If you explain your reasoning, I will be more generous in an answer, but I need to see more effort. An infinitive is not always wrong, but you need at least one conjugated verb. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 23, 2016

Answer 1

**Ayer me duelen (doler) la cabeza después de la clase de español.*

¿A quién le toca (tocar) limpiar la casa?

¿Te molesta (molestar) las cucarachas?

Nos encantar (encantar) la película anoche.

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Ayer me dolía la cabeza--- It happened yesterday--you need the imperfect tense (which you have probably never heard of. It is saying my head hurt after class.

¿A quién le toca---?-(correct)

?Te molestan las cucarachas? The cucarachas are the subject. Do cucarachas bug you?

Nos encantó la película anoche. (The verb is in the preterit tense here because it happened last night.

There are so many things going on here, that I can see the reason for the confusion. please heed the advice of my other post and check out our cute teacher, Paralee.

It really "bugs" me when 14 hours have passed and not one comment or vote from the OP. - Daniela2041, Aug 23, 2016

Thank you very much for a needed clarification! I'll start the course :) Again, thank you! - No_one, Aug 23, 2016

Answer 2

Hola.

What you need is a real properly structured Spanish course that starts you off from the beginning, and introduces you to the Spanish verb which is more complicated than English. There are two ways to go. (1) with Fluencia or (2) with the course that was produced by SD and taught by an excellent teacher, Paralee.

Give it a try. Here's the link. When you get to the page you can scroll all the way to the bottom, and click on "view all courses" You will see that this is a complete program.

Link to Spanish Course

Thank you. I better start course because what I'm doing right now is kinda hard and doesn't have a lot of needed explanation. - No_one, Aug 23, 2016

Answer 3

Do you have a teacher or are you teaching yourself Spanish? What is your first language?

It looks to me that one answer is correct,

The verbs you are using, are like the verb gustar and are being used in the third person singular or plural. Eg doler is used as 'it pains me' los ojos = plural la cabeza = singular.

However, in your sentence using doler it starts yesterday so you need a past tense. Have you learnt the preterite and imperfect?

I'm teaching myself Spanish and I found this exercise online. I just now started learning about preterite and I don't really understand it. - No_one, Aug 23, 2016

Does the first one has to be, "doli" instead of "duelen"? - No_one, Aug 23, 2016

Answer 4

Following the reasoning for the use of the preterite in the last example, then I would also have used the preterite in the first example. I am probably wrong but both examples happened have occurred in the past. If there is a reason for imperfect in the first and the preterite in the 4th, can it be explained please?

With certain verbs of feeling either emotional of physical you use the imperfect to say what you were feeling. The preterit would be used only to describe the beginning or the end of the event. On the 4th sentence, "Me encantó" --the movie "enchanted" me - Daniela2041, Aug 23, 2016

or I "loved" the movie. It is a fact, and you're not describing you emotion, as the subject of the sentence is the movie. It's a difficult concept to explain. I will have to think up some more examples. - Daniela2041, Aug 23, 2016

Thanks Daniela. So much still to learn!! - margarita1943, Aug 24, 2016