Breakdown of La reina veía la estatua de la diosa todos los días.
de
of
ver
to see; to watch (TV, a film)
el día
the day
todo
all / everything
la reina
the queen
la estatua
the statue
la diosa
the goddess
Questions & Answers about La reina veía la estatua de la diosa todos los días.
Why is veía used here, and how is it irregular?
Veía is the imperfect tense of ver (to see). We use the imperfect here because of the phrase todos los días (every day), which shows this was a repeated or habitual action in the past. Ver is slightly irregular in the imperfect: instead of dropping the -er completely, it keeps the e (forming the base ve-) before adding the regular endings like -ía.
Does the phrase todos los días usually trigger the imperfect tense?
Why isn't de la combined into one word like del?
In Spanish, we only combine the preposition de and the masculine article el to make the contraction del. When de is followed by the feminine article la, they always stay as two separate words: de la.
Is diosa just the feminine version of the Spanish word for god?
Exactly! Dios is the word for god. To make it feminine (goddess), you simply add an -a to the end, making it diosa. Notice that the sentence uses the feminine article la right before it to match.
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