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¿Qué haces en tu tiempo libre?

¿Qué haces en tu tiempo libre?
What do you do in your free time?
From Lesson 140:Hobbies (el tiempo libre, el ajedrez)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Qué haces en tu tiempo libre?

Why is there no translation for the first 'do' in 'What do you do'?
Spanish doesn't use helper verbs like 'do' or 'does' to ask questions. The single verb haces means both 'you do' and 'do you do' depending on whether it has question marks around it.
Why is the adjective libre placed after tiempo?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like libre (free) almost always come after the noun they describe. So instead of saying 'free time', Spanish says 'time free'.
Why doesn't tu have an accent mark in this sentence?
The word tu without an accent mark is a possessive adjective meaning 'your', as in tu tiempo (your time). The word tú with an accent mark is the subject pronoun meaning 'you'.
I've learned that hacer means 'to make'. Why does it mean 'to do' here?
The verb hacer translates to both 'to do' and 'to make' in English. You have to rely on context to know which one it is. Here, asking someone what they 'make' in their free time doesn't make much sense without a specific object, so it means 'do'.

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