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La mujer joven quiere lograr sus metas.

La mujer joven quiere lograr sus metas.
The young woman wants to achieve her goals.
From Lesson 44:Desires and plans (querer)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about La mujer joven quiere lograr sus metas.

Why do we use the infinitive lograr instead of conjugating it like logra?
When you want to express what someone desires to do, you conjugate the first verb querer (to want) and leave the second verb in its infinitive (unchanged) form. Here, quiere (she wants) is conjugated to match the woman, but lograr (to achieve) stays in the infinitive.
Why is it quiere instead of quere?
The verb querer has a stem change. When you conjugate it for most forms, including the she form, the e in the middle changes to ie. That is why it becomes quiere.
The woman is singular, so why is it sus metas instead of su metas?
In Spanish, possessive words like su and sus must match the number of the noun they are attached to, not the person who owns it. Since she has multiple goals (metas), you must use the plural sus, even though there is only one woman.
Why does joven come after mujer?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like joven (young) usually come right after the noun they describe. This is the opposite of English, so the young woman translates to la mujer joven.

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