Word
No empieces a publicar en la red social.
Meaning
Don't start posting on the social network.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of No empieces a publicar en la red social.
no
no, not
en
in / on / at
a
to
empezar
to start / to begin
Questions & Answers about No empieces a publicar en la red social.
Why is it empieces and not 'empiezas'?
Because this is a negative command ('Don't start'), we use the negative imperative form. For -ar verbs like empezar, the tú ending changes to -es. Plus, empezar is a stem-changing verb, so the middle e changes to ie, giving us empieces.
Where did the 'z' from empezar go? Why is it spelled with a 'c' here?
In Spanish spelling, the letter z changes to a c whenever it comes right before an e or an i. Since our negative command ending is -es, the z must turn into a c to maintain the same sound.
Why is there an a between empieces and publicar?
Why is it la red social instead of 'la social red'?
In Spanish, descriptive words (adjectives) almost always come after the noun they describe. Here, the noun is red (network) and the adjective is social, so they swap order compared to English.