What is an infinitive in Spanish?
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An infinitive in Spanish is the "to" form of a word in English.\nExamples: \ncorrer = to run\n                  comer = to eat\n                  escribir = to write\n                  tocar = to play (an instrument)\n                  jugar = to play (a game or sport)\n\nThe infinitive form of a word always ends in either an "ar," an "er," or an "ir."  The infinitive is considered the basic form of a noun.  From there, you conjugate it into different tenses and forms.
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In spanish, it means "how is the class?". Like, is it hard, fun, etc.
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Yo amo mi vida y aquellos que están en ella.\n or Amo mi vida y a los que están en ella.
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Which past?\nYou can say:\nellos...\nescuchaban (imperfecto)...they were listening\nescucharon (pretérito)....they listened\nhan escuchado (pretérito perfecto)...they have listened\nhabían escuchado (pluscuamperfecto)...they had listened\nescucharan (subjunctivo imperfecto)...they had listened subjunctive
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the end is supposed to remain a mystery, because if you translated it, the meaning would be "lost in translation" \n\nlike how we have phrases in english that people who speak spanish would not understand, like saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"
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I'll answer this in spite of your split infinitive. \n\nUruguay in 1950, for sure.
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An infinitive is "to" plus the verb: to go, to see, to jump, to run. When the infinitive begins a phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun, it functions as an adjective and is therefore an adjective infinitive phrase.\n\nExample: He is the baseball player to watch carefully. To watch carefully is an infinitive phrase that modifies player. Therefore, it is an adjective infinitive phrase.\n\nExample: The doctor to call immediately is Dr. Swift. To call quickly tells which doctor, modifies doctor, and is therefore an adjective infinitive phrase.\n\nI hope this helps!!
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Everything/All=Todo\nTry to make= intente hacer\nAgainst=Contra\nIt Happens=Sucede\nHelp to make better choices=ayude a hacer opciones mejores\n\nThe babelfish site is usually correct.  Sometimes it does not give correct "tense" (ie preterite, past, perfecto etc)\nI took 9 years of Spanish and my roommate was from Venezuala (she spoke Spanish to her family and we had conversations while I was taking Spanish in college)  I don't know alot, but I believe the above are correct.
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Para can only mean 1 thing.  for (in order to)  \n"este paraguas es para cuando llueva"  = for, like "it's for the weekend"\n\npor can mean (be translated as) for, (like para), out of, all sorts of things.\n\nUsually, an english speaker will translate "for" wrongly, by using "por".  As a general rule, use para.\n\nIt's for maria. Es para maria.\n\nActually, maybe  I should have some lessons.
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If you are talking about Spanish, which is the language in which I learned these terms, the imperfect tense is used to describe something that happened in the past with no specifically stated time. For example, the sentence "When I was a young child, I went to the mall," when translated into Spanish would require you to conjugate the verbs "be" and "go" (used as "was" and "went" in English) to the imperfect tense.\n\nThe preterite tense is used to describe something that occurred in the past at a specific time. For example, the sentence "I went to the mall last Wednesday" when translated into Spanish would require you to conjugate the verb "go" (used as "went" in English) to the preterite tense.\n\nHope this helps.
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Go buy a copy of "500 Latin Verbs Fully Conjugated in all the Tenses".  I'm too lazy to walk all the way downstairs and to the other end of the house to get my copy or else I'd tell you.\n\nEDIT:  OK, I'm awake now, lol.  Since "go" is an intransitive verb, there is NO SUCH THING as a passive form of it.  LOLOLOLOL
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Guilty. Además se dice, guilty or not guilty.\n\nSi fuera inocente, no hubiera huído, lo que pasa es que tuvo mucho dinero y contrató un buen abogado.\n\nSorry que te conteste en pocho, pero me es más fácil.\n\nUna pregunta, sin que me lo tomes a mal, veo que preguntas en inglés y tienes respuestas, pero ¿no sería mejor que para tus preguntas entraras a inglés, hay muchas opciones, de EUA, de Inglaterra, etc. y contestas en español? así tendrías máqs de lo que aquí tienes.
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Aunque soy inglesa, hablo espanol tambien!  Es una lengua bonita y quiero Espana, especialmente Barcelona donde hay muchas trabajos de Gaudi!\n\nThe first sentence is the sentence people tend to use!  But the second sentence is also right!
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Is that a Spanish word?\n\nIf so, it means insolent.
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Me gustaria que mi madre fuera mas alta.\n\nAll too frequently, the topic of the subjunctive is made far more difficult than is necessary. The subjunctive is not a tense; rather, it is a mood. Tense refers to when an action takes place (past, present, future), while mood merely reflects how the speaker feels about the action. The subjunctive mood is rarely used in English, but it is widely used in Spanish. \n\nHere are some examples of the subjunctive being used in English:\n\nThe doctor recommends that he take the pills with food.\nSubjunctive conjugation: he take\n\nThe law requires that you be 18 years old to vote.\nSubjunctive conjugation: you be\n\nIf I were a rich man, I wouldn't have to work hard.\nSubjunctive conjugation: I were
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Hey j.a.,\n\n do you mean (1) how many end in - ir?\nor (2) how to conjugate the verb ir?\n\n (1) There are probably hundreds.\n (2) http://spanish.about.com/library/verbs/blir.htm
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an 'infinitive' does not express time (tense) or person (who is doing the action)   To eat is to live.  We don't know or care who is eating or when.\n\na 'finite' verb has a time and a person.\nI eat (I is the person, now is the time)\nHe was eating when the phone rang.  (he is the person, past is the time)\n\nI find it clearer in French/German, where the finite verb is clearly formed from the infinitive--then I can say that the finite verb changes its endings, while the infinitive ends in (-er, -ir, -re, -en, -n etc depending on language.)