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Fue una reunión productiva y logramos un avance importante.

Fue una reunión productiva y logramos un avance importante.
It was a productive meeting and we made important progress.
From Lesson 302:The perfect infinitive (haber)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Fue una reunión productiva y logramos un avance importante.

Why do we use fue instead of era to describe how the meeting was?
Even though we are describing something in the past, a meeting (reunión) is an event with a clear beginning and end. When you summarize a completed event as a whole, Spanish uses the preterite (fue) rather than the imperfect (era).
Why use logramos (from lograr) instead of hicimos (from hacer) for "we made"?
English uses the phrase "to make progress," but Spanish prefers verbs like lograr (to achieve / to attain) when talking about milestones or successes. Lograr un avance sounds much more natural and professional than trying to literally translate "make" with hacer.
Why is there an un before avance? We don't say "made an important progress" in English.
In English, "progress" is usually an uncountable noun. However, the Spanish word avance translates more literally to "an advance" or "a step forward," which is a countable noun. That is why it requires the singular article un.
Can importante be translated as something other than "important" here?
Yes! While it literally means "important," in business or formal contexts like this one, importante is frequently used where an English speaker would naturally say "significant," "major," or "substantial" progress.

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