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Jun 03, 2014 - 07:41 PM
I just think their English translation (and not the Spanish sentence) is slightly screwy. The English translation could very well be "Let's go to my house ON the mountain on Sunday."
Jun 04, 2014 - 05:37 PM
Dennis, I see your point about "house on the mountain", but that would be a specific mountain,, known to the conversants. My question is actually when would the the Spanish use the plural, as the French do (dans les montagnes ??) when referring to "the mountains in general"?
Jun 11, 2014 - 09:34 AM
Hola Banjolover47
This is one of those occasions where we bend the English to give you a feel for how Spanish-speakers would say it. Spanish-speakers do indeed use "la montaña" in the singular to talk about what we know as "the mountains". Even though it sounds very strange to us, it's absolutely normal in Spanish to refer to the mountains (in general) in the singular. And because it's such a strange concept for us as English speakers we decided to "show" you what the sentence would be like in Spanish by using "mountain" in the singular. I hope this helps!
This is one of those occasions where we bend the English to give you a feel for how Spanish-speakers would say it. Spanish-speakers do indeed use "la montaña" in the singular to talk about what we know as "the mountains". Even though it sounds very strange to us, it's absolutely normal in Spanish to refer to the mountains (in general) in the singular. And because it's such a strange concept for us as English speakers we decided to "show" you what the sentence would be like in Spanish by using "mountain" in the singular. I hope this helps!