Quisiéramos or Quisimos?
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Just need some feedback on this sentence...
"Sin embargo a diferencia la boda en la fiesta luego de funeral nadie (quisiéramos or quisimos) bailar."
"However unlike the wedding at the party after the funeral nobody wanted (as in "felt like") to dance."
I know that querer changes meaning in the preterite so I don't think I should use "quisimos" because I'm not saying we "refused" but rather we "didn't want to"
Thanks in advance!
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updated Sep 23, 2016
posted by hmgrimes
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None of them.
The conjugation agrees with the subject. The subject is nadie and then you invoke the third person singular form quiso.
updated Sep 23, 2016
posted by Oshnaj
Ah, thanks I didn't catch that! But what if I wanted to say "nobody wanted to dance" instead of "nobody tried to dance" which is what "quiso" implies? - hmgrimes, Sep 22, 2016
Nadie quiso bailar. (= nobody felt like dancing.) - Oshnaj, Sep 22, 2016
In Spain and Mexico "no quiso" means "refused" "No quería" means didn't want to. - Daniela2041, Sep 23, 2016
:) - ian-hill, Sep 23, 2016
