Mi hermana quiere comprar un marco de madera y un jarrón sencillo para el salón nuevo.

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Breakdown of Mi hermana quiere comprar un marco de madera y un jarrón sencillo para el salón nuevo.

• un: a
• mi: my
• para: for

Questions & Answers about Mi hermana quiere comprar un marco de madera y un jarrón sencillo para el salón nuevo.

Why is it mi hermana and not la mi hermana?

In modern Spanish, possessive words like mi, tu, su, nuestro normally replace the article.

So you say:

• mi hermana
• tu casa
• su coche

not la mi hermana.

English works similarly here: my sister, not the my sister.

Why are there two verbs in quiere comprar?

This is a very common Spanish structure:

• querer + infinitive

It means to want to do something.

So:

• quiere = she wants
• comprar = to buy

Together, quiere comprar = she wants to buy.

Notice that Spanish does not use a separate word for to between the two verbs here. The second verb simply stays in the infinitive form.

Why is it un marco and un jarrón? Why is the article repeated?

Because Spanish normally uses an article before each singular countable noun when you are listing separate items.

So:

• un marco
• y un jarrón

This makes it clear that these are two different objects.

If you left out the second un, the sentence could sound less natural in this context. Repeating it is the standard and clearest option.