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Mañana empezamos el safari con nuestro nuevo guía.

Mañana empezamos el safari con nuestro nuevo guía.
Tomorrow we start the safari with our new guide.
From Lesson 573:Complex spatial prepositions (de entre, por entre)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Mañana empezamos el safari con nuestro nuevo guía.

Why is the present tense empezamos used here when the sentence starts with Mañana?
In Spanish, you can use the present tense to talk about the future when an event is fixed, scheduled, or certain to happen. Saying Mañana empezamos emphasizes that the plan to start the safari is already locked in, much like saying 'Tomorrow we start' in English.
Why is nuevo placed before guía instead of after it?
Placing nuevo before the noun changes its meaning slightly. A nuevo guía means a newly acquired guide or a different guide than the one you had before. If it were written as guía nuevo, it would imply the guide is brand new to the profession or inexperienced.
Since guía ends in -a, why do we use the masculine modifiers nuestro and nuevo?
The word guía is a noun whose meaning or gender depends on the article. El guía refers to a male person working as a guide, which is why the masculine forms nuestro and nuevo are used here. La guía refers to a female guide, but it also commonly means a printed guidebook or manual.
Do I ever need to put the preposition a after empezamos?
You only need the preposition a when empezar is followed by another verb in the infinitive (for example, empezamos a caminar, meaning 'we start to walk'). Because el safari is a noun, no preposition is needed in this sentence.

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