Prefiero un paseo tranquilo por el parque después del trabajo.

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Breakdown of Prefiero un paseo tranquilo por el parque después del trabajo.

• después de: after
• el trabajo: the work
• el parque: the park

Questions & Answers about Prefiero un paseo tranquilo por el parque después del trabajo.

Why is there no yo before prefiero in this sentence?

In Spanish, subject pronouns like yo are optional because the verb ending already indicates who is performing the action. Prefiero is first-person singular (“I prefer”), so adding yo would be redundant. You could say Yo prefiero un paseo tranquilo… only if you want to emphasize I in contrast to someone else.

What tense and person is prefiero, and why does it change from preferir?

Prefiero is the present indicative, first-person singular form of preferir (to prefer). It’s a stem-changing verb: the e in the stem changes to ie in all forms except nosotros/vosotros. So:

• yo prefiero
• tú prefieres
• él/ella prefiere
  …and so on.

Why do we say un paseo tranquilo and not una paseo tranquilo or paseos tranquilos?

• Paseo is a masculine singular noun, so it needs the masculine singular article un.
• The adjective tranquilo agrees in gender (masculine) and number (singular).
• Una paseo is wrong because una is feminine.
• Paseos tranquilos would be plural (“peaceful walks”), but here you mean “a peaceful walk” (singular).

Why is the adjective tranquilo placed after the noun paseo, and can we put it before?