Learn Spanish (Latin America): ¿Quién querría tomar este seminario?

¿Quién querría tomar este seminario?

Who would want to take this seminar?

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Why does querer change to querría here instead of querería?

Querer has an irregular stem in the conditional tense. Instead of using the full infinitive as the base, you drop the e from the ending to get the stem querr-. Then you add the standard conditional endings. For the third-person singular, that makes it querría (would want).

Why is querría conjugated in the third-person singular (like él or ella) if we don't know who the subject is?

In Spanish, the singular question word quién (who) is treated grammatically as a third-person singular subject, just like in English. If you were specifically addressing a plural group and expecting multiple people as the answer, you would use the plural form quiénes querrían.

Why use tomar for 'to take' a seminar instead of sacar or llevar?

When talking about taking a class, a course, or a seminar, tomar is the standard and most widely used verb in Latin America. Sacar means to physically take something out or extract it (like taking keys out of a pocket), so it doesn't work for attending an event.

I always mix up este and esto. Why is it este seminario?