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Mira la tercera diapositiva, por favor.

Mira la tercera diapositiva, por favor.
Look at the third slide, please.
From Lesson 325:In a Meeting·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of Mira la tercera diapositiva, por favor.

por favor
please
mirar
to look
tercero
third
la diapositiva
the slide (presentation)

Questions & Answers about Mira la tercera diapositiva, por favor.

Why does this sentence use mira instead of miras?
This is the affirmative tú (informal you) command form of mirar. To tell someone to do something informally, you generally use the same form as the he/she/it present tense, which is why the 's' from miras is dropped.
I want to say 'look AT', so why isn't there a word for 'at' after mira?
In Spanish, the verb mirar already means 'to look at' all by itself. You don't need to add a preposition like a or en after it when looking at an inanimate object like a slide.
Why is it tercera and not tercer?
Ordinal numbers like third (tercero) must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because diapositiva is feminine, it becomes tercera. The shortened form tercer is only used before masculine singular nouns, like in el tercer piso (the third floor).
Can I use diapositiva to talk about a slide at a playground?
No, diapositiva only refers to a slide in a presentation, like in a PowerPoint. If you want to talk about a playground slide, you would use the word tobogán.

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