Breakdown of El enchufe está arriba, así que pongo la silla debajo para enchufar el portátil.
yo
I
estar
to be
así que
so
.
period
poner
to put
la silla
the chair
el portátil
the laptop
,
comma
enchufar
to plug in
el enchufe
the outlet
para
to (in order to)
arriba
upstairs/above
debajo
underneath/below
Questions & Answers about El enchufe está arriba, así que pongo la silla debajo para enchufar el portátil.
What does enchufe mean here—plug or socket?
Why is it El enchufe está arriba and not es arriba?
Does arriba literally mean “above,” or more like “up there”?
What does así que mean, and is it the same as entonces?
Why is pongo in the present tense? Shouldn’t it be “I’m going to put” if it’s happening now?
What’s the difference between poner and meter / colocar here?
Why does it say debajo and not debajo de (él / del enchufe)?
Spanish can omit the complement after debajo when it’s obvious from context. Here, debajo is understood as debajo del enchufe (under the socket).
If you want to be explicit: pongo la silla debajo del enchufe.
Why is it para enchufar and not por enchufar?
What exactly does the verb enchufar mean?
Is portátil the usual word in Spain for “laptop”?
Why are there accents in así and portátil?
- así has an accent to mark stress and to distinguish it from asi (which isn’t normally used in standard Spanish).
- portátil has an accent because the stress falls on -til (por-ta-TIL). Words stressed on the last syllable (agudas) take an accent when they end in n, s, or a vowel—here it ends in l, so the accent is for the stress pattern of portátil (it’s actually stressed on the second-to-last? In practice: por-TA-til is common in speech, but standard stress is marked by the written accent, so you follow it when pronouncing).
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