Breakdown of Hoy he hecho todos los recados en una hora.
un
a, an, some
en
in / on / by (means of transport) / about (after pensar)
hoy
today
hacer
to do, to make
la hora
the hour; the time (on the clock: what time is it?)
todo
all / everything
haber
to have (auxiliary)
el recado
the errand (to run errands)
Questions & Answers about Hoy he hecho todos los recados en una hora.
Why use he hecho (present perfect) instead of the simple past here?
In Spanish from Spain, the present perfect (he hecho) is always used when talking about actions that happened in an unfinished time frame. Because the sentence mentions hoy (today), that time period isn't over yet, so you must use the present perfect rather than the simple past (hice).
Why does the Spanish sentence use hacer for errands instead of a verb like "run"?
While in English we "run" errands, in Spanish you "do" them. A recado is a small task or message, and the standard phrase to express running errands is hacer recados.
Is hecho irregular?
Yes, hecho is the past participle of hacer. Regular verbs ending in -er usually form this part with -ido, but hacer is a highly common irregular verb that you simply have to memorize.
Why is it todos los recados and not just todos recados?
In Spanish, when you use todos to mean all of a specific thing, you almost always need to include the definite article (el, la, los, las) before the noun. Leaving out los here and saying todos recados would sound incomplete to a native speaker.
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