Por/para question I need money for a dog.

Question

I need money for a dog. (to purchase one) Is this correct? "Necesito dinero POR un perro"? (Por - exchange or substitution.)

I need money to buy a dog. Necesito dinero PARA comprar un perro. (Para- meaning "in order to&quot

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Answer 1

You'd use the latter: Necesito dinero para comprarlo, since you want to basically say "I need money (in order to) buy a dog. You don't want to say that you're trading a dog for money. Hope this helped!

Answer 2

Hello gtcharland,

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Kravishinkar is right....

You would use para as in the example that I have given.

Necesito dinero para comprar un perro (o una perra)

I need money for (ie: in order to buy) a dog

You always use para to mean in order to do something!

But...you would use por in this way:

Te daré £100 por ese perro

= I will give you £100 for that dog

You use the preposition por to mean = in exchange for

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I hope this helps