Did you turn off the radio? in Spanish 🇪🇸

both el and la work for radio.

mis-posted: confused radio with regalo.

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Sentence info.

The sentence “¿Apagaste la radio?” in Spanish is formed using the following grammatical components:

1. **Interrogative Sign**: In Spanish, questions are marked with an inverted question mark at the beginning of the sentence (¿) and a regular one at the end (?). This signals that the sentence is a question.

2. **Subject**: The subject “you” is implied in the verb conjugation and is not explicitly mentioned in the sentence. In Spanish, the subject is often omitted when it can be inferred from the verb conjugation.

3. **Verb**: “Apagaste” is the second person singular preterite tense form of the verb “apagar,” which means “to turn off.” The preterite tense is used to describe actions that were completed in the past.

4. **Object**: “La radio” is the direct object of the verb “apagar” and refers to “the radio” that is being turned off.

To remember how to form this sentence:

– Remember that in Spanish, the subject pronoun can be omitted if the verb’s ending makes it clear who the subject is (“apagaste” already implies “you”).
– The preterite tense in Spanish is a past tense used for actions completed in the past, so the “-aste” ending indicates a past action done by “you.”
– Always start questions with the inverted question mark (¿) and end them with a regular one (?).

Alternate ways to say “Did you turn off the radio?” in Spanish include:

– ¿Desactivaste la radio?
– ¿Cerraste la radio?
– ¿Has apagado la radio? (Using the present perfect tense, which might imply the action was done recently)
– ¿Apagó la radio? (If asking in a more formal manner with the “usted” form)

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