Questions & Answers about El peatón va a cruzar la calle por aquí.
The verb here is cruzar. How would I spell "I crossed" in the past tense?
Why does the sentence use por aquí instead of just aquí?
Aquí alone means "here" as an exact spot. Adding por changes the meaning to "around here" or "through here." You will often see the preposition por used to talk about moving through an area or being in a general location.
Why is it va a cruzar instead of just cruza?
Why does peatón have an accent mark?
Spanish words ending in -n, -s, or a vowel normally place the spoken stress on the second-to-last syllable. Because the spoken stress in peatón falls on the final syllable instead, we need an accent mark to show that the rule is being broken. When making it plural (los peatones), the accent mark disappears because the extra syllable makes the natural stress fall on the o anyway.