Breakdown of El rey bebía mucho vino en el palacio.
mucho
a lot
en
in / on / by (means of transport) / about (after pensar)
beber
to drink
el vino
the wine
Questions & Answers about El rey bebía mucho vino en el palacio.
Why is it bebía and not bebió here?
bebía is the imperfect tense of the verb beber (to drink). We use the imperfect here because it describes an ongoing habit in the past, meaning the king used to drink a lot of wine. bebió is the preterite tense, which you would use if he drank a specific glass of wine at one specific, completed moment.
Why does bebía have an accent mark on the i?
Why is mucho used here instead of muy?
mucho means a lot or much, and here it describes the noun vino (wine). Because vino is a masculine singular noun, we use the matching form mucho. muy translates to very and is only used before adjectives or adverbs, not before nouns.
Do the b in bebía and the v in vino sound different?
No, in Spanish, the letters b and v are pronounced exactly the same. The v in vino makes the same sound as the bs in bebía.