Breakdown of El productor quiere volver a grabar la canción.
querer
to want; to love (a person)
la canción
the song
el productor
the producer
volver a
to do again (+ infinitive)
grabar
to record
Questions & Answers about El productor quiere volver a grabar la canción.
How does volver a grabar mean "to record again"?
Why are there two verbs in the infinitive right next to each other (volver a grabar)?
You are seeing a chain of verbs! The first verb in the sentence, quiere (wants), is conjugated to match the producer. When a verb directly follows a conjugated verb, it stays in the infinitive form, giving us quiere volver. Then, because the rule for doing something again is volver a + infinitive, the next verb must also be an infinitive, completing the chain as volver a grabar.
Does grabar mean "to grab"?
No, this is a classic false friend (a word that looks like an English word but means something else). Grabar means "to record" (like music or video) or "to engrave". If you want to say "to grab", you would use a word like coger or agarrar in Spain.
Why does canción use the feminine word la?
Even though canción doesn't end in the typical feminine -a, it ends in -ción. In Spanish, almost all nouns ending in -ción or -sión (like la estación or la televisión) are feminine, so they use la.
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