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korejdk

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Since yours trully's spanish is most basic, I'd much appreciate your help to translate the following:

"The choices you make dictate the life you lead"

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Hillbilly

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There are a lot of ways to look at this one.
1) Las decisiones que tomes van a dictar (trazar) la vida que llevas
2) El camino que cojes va a determinar la vida que llevas
3) Las alternativas que seleccionas van a determinar la vida que llevas

Or words to that effect....I never get subjunctive all that pat....

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Norma Rosa

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There are a lot of ways to look at this one.
1) Las decisiones que tomes van a dictar (trazar) la vida que llevas
2) El camino que cojes va a determinar la vida que llevas
3) Las alternativas que seleccionas van a determinar la vida que llevas

Or words to that effect....I never get subjunctive all that pat....

HB

Review those verbs.
ar verbs: tomar, seleccionar, llevar (Nonetheless you have two different endings: tomes, seleccionas

The correct ending is es.

er verbs: coger
Correct ending: as

With love,
Norma
 
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Norma Rosa

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A bit of grammar for my own good and the good of others.

With relatively few exceptions, the present subjunctive is formed upon the root of the Ist person, singular, present indicative. The -o of that form is replaced with the so-called "opposite vowel". For a verb of the first conjugation (-ar), the opposite vowel is e, and for verbs of the 2nd and 3rd conjugations (er/ir), the opposite vowel is a.

ar
tomar - Las decisiones que tomes . . .

er/ir
escoger - El camino que escojas . . .
sufrir - El dolor que sufras ma?ana . . .

Here to help and learn,
Norma
 
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