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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 21 December 2005 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
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I heard this sentence in Pimsleur:
I never look at how the streets are called = Nunca miro cómo se llama las calles Why doesn't llama become llamaS? There are more streets so more names. Or is this simply always the way it is in Spanish? Ah.. or is this because it literaly says: how they call those streets? So call/llama stays single? Edited by tuffy on 21 December 2005 at 5:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7106 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 2 of 7 21 December 2005 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
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Llamar is a verb, you don't make it plural like that. However because there are multiple steets, I would say "se llaman" = they call themselves.
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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 7 21 December 2005 at 5:36pm | IP Logged |
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Have I misheard it in Pimsleur then, that the N is very soft. So it is llaman?
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| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7106 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 4 of 7 21 December 2005 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
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I think so, as llaman sounds better to me, after all the "streets" are plural, so I would use 3rd person plural.
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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 7 21 December 2005 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
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Ok, thanks Sir Nigel!
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7017 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 7 21 December 2005 at 11:53pm | IP Logged |
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Tuffy, it's definitely "llaman". Perhaps it's as you mentioned, i.e. you didn't hear the final "n".
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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 7 22 December 2005 at 6:39am | IP Logged |
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Ok, that is a relief, otherwise I would be confused about the grammar.
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