Breakdown of Ya he encendido el micrófono, pero todavía no tiene volumen.
no
no / not
pero
but
tener
to have
haber
to have (auxiliary)
encender
to turn on; to light (a fire, a candle, a cigarette)
ya
already
todavía
still, yet
el micrófono
the microphone
el volumen
the volume
Questions & Answers about Ya he encendido el micrófono, pero todavía no tiene volumen.
Why do we use both ya and todavía no in this sentence?
I remember that encender changes to enciendo in the present tense. Why isn't there an ie in encendido?
You are thinking of the present tense stem change (from e to ie). Past participles like encendido don't use those present-tense stem changes. You simply take the infinitive encender, drop the -er, and add -ido.
How would I use the lesson's grammar (volver a) to say "I have turned the microphone on again" here?
To say you did the action again using the present perfect, you apply the tense to the verb volver. The past participle of volver is irregular (vuelto). So, you would replace he encendido with he vuelto a encender (I have returned to turn on).
Could I say tiene el volumen instead of just tiene volumen?
Here, tiene volumen acts as a general, uncountable concept (it has "some" volume or audio level), so no article is needed. If you were talking about the specific volume level, like "the volume is low", you would use the article: El volumen está bajo.
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