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| Solidaridad Newbie United States Joined 4613 days ago 8 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 19 April 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm doing the FSI basic Spanish course, and in Unit 21 there are two different sentences:
Yo voy para el hotel and Fue al [a el] hotel. What is the difference between para el hotel and al hotel? Is para used with the present tense and "a" with the past tenses? Or is there some different shade of meaning similar to para vs. por? Edited by Solidaridad on 19 April 2012 at 3:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 2 of 4 19 April 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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They both essentially mean the same thing.
Technically speaking, "para" corresponds to how an English speaker might say, "I'm leaving for London tomorrow". We use "for" with "leave" quite often, though never with go, but this is acceptable in Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 3 of 4 20 April 2012 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | ||
They are extremely similar. The only difference would be that "ir para el hotel" is less 'theoretical' than "ir al hotel", just like for an English speaker "I like doing X" kind of implies you actually do it sometimes, while that is not 100% clear when you say "I like to do X". BTW if I'm not right about that, please tell me what the real difference is ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4678 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 4 of 4 26 April 2012 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not exactly sure about this but i believe they essentially mean the same thing with a being more formal and
para being more colloquial 1 person has voted this message useful |
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