Learn Spanish (Latin America): No hacemos senderismo en este lugar inhóspito. - We do not go hiking in this inhospitable place.

No hacemos senderismo en este lugar inhóspito.

We do not go hiking in this inhospitable place.

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Questions & Answers about No hacemos senderismo en este lugar inhóspito.

Is there a single verb for 'to hike' in Spanish, or do we always have to use hacer senderismo?

While you might occasionally hear verbs like caminar (to walk) or excursionar (to go on an excursion), hacer senderismo is the most standard and widely used term for hiking as a specific outdoor activity. It comes from the word sendero, meaning trail or path.

This lesson focuses on extreme intensification using the un + noun + de + noun structure. How could we apply that here to emphasize the harshness of the location?

Since the original sentence uses a standard adjective (inhóspito), you could replace the phrase with a qualitative intensification structure like un lugar de espanto (a terrifying place) or un infierno de lugar (a hell of a place). The sentence would become: No hacemos senderismo en un infierno de lugar.

Could we place the adjective before the noun and say este inhóspito lugar?

Yes, but it changes the tone. Placing inhóspito after the noun is the standard, objective way to describe the place. Moving it before the noun makes the sentence sound more literary or dramatic, emphasizing the hostility as the location's inescapable, defining feature.

Why do we use the preposition en instead of a if hiking involves moving around?