Breakdown of Me encanta mi nuevo pasatiempo, pero suelo trasnochar mucho.
pero
but
mucho
many / a lot
nuevo
new
mi
my
Questions & Answers about Me encanta mi nuevo pasatiempo, pero suelo trasnochar mucho.
How does suelo trasnochar work, and why is there a spelling change in suelo?
The verb soler means "to tend to do something" or "to usually do something." In the present tense, it has a stem change where the o changes to ue for most subjects, giving us suelo for "I tend to." You always follow a conjugated form of soler directly with an infinitive verb, which in this case is trasnochar.
Is trasnochar just one word for "to stay up late"?
Yes! Spanish has a dedicated verb for staying up very late or staying awake all night. It combines tras (beyond) and noche (night). While you could also say acostarme tarde (to go to bed late), trasnochar is a very common and natural way to express this specific habit.
Why do we say me encanta instead of using a regular conjugation like yo encanto?
The verb encantar (to love strongly) works exactly like gustar. The Spanish structure translates roughly to "my new hobby is enchanting to me." Because the hobby is the subject doing the enchanting, we use the third-person singular form encanta, and the indirect object pronoun me tells us who it is enchanting to.
Why is the adjective nuevo placed before pasatiempo instead of after it?