Question 1

Why is enseñar in its base form instead of being conjugated?

Accepted Answer

This sentence uses a two-verb combination. The first verb, queremos (we want), is conjugated to match the "we" subject. When you express wanting to do an action, that second action verb stays in its original dictionary form (called the infinitive). So, queremos enseñar perfectly translates to "we want to teach".

Question 2

Is the Nosotros at the beginning of the sentence required?

Accepted Answer

Not at all! In Spanish, the verb vamos already tells us the subject is "we". You could just say Vamos a la escuela.... The word Nosotros is included here just to be clear or add emphasis, but notice how we completely drop it later in the sentence before queremos.

Question 3

I remember learning that "to the" is al. Why is it a la here?

Accepted Answer

In Spanish, the preposition a (to) and the masculine article el (the) smash together to form the contraction al. However, escuela is a feminine word, so it uses the article la. The words a and la never combine into one word, so they must stay separate as a la escuela.

Question 4

Why doesn't porque have an accent mark or a space?

Accepted Answer

When written as one word without an accent, porque means "because". If you write it as two words with an accent, por qué, it means "why" (like in a question). Here, we are stating the reason for going to school, so we use the one-word version.

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