You Keep and You Leave
Use guarda for polite “you keep/save” and deja for polite “you leave/let.” Every practice roll now recycles approximately twice as much previously learned language.
You keep or save: guarda
Use guarda when politely saying that one person keeps or saves something. Use guardar after familiar helper forms.
One new building block
Spanish often leaves out usted. Here, guarda by itself can mean polite you keep or you save.
Build the meaning step by step
Interpret with guarda and guardar
You leave or let: deja
Use deja when politely saying that one person leaves something or lets an action happen. Use dejar after familiar helper forms.
One new building block
Use deja for the direct polite action and dejar after quiere, puede, or necesita.
Build the meaning step by step
Interpret with deja and dejar
Show and explain
A: ¿Qué muestra?
B: Pido el documento.
A: ¿Cuándo lo explica?
B: Lo recibo ahora.
A: ¿Dónde lo explica?
B: Lo recibo aquí.
Guarda versus guardar; deja versus dejar
Use muestra and explica when speaking politely to one person about what they request or explain.
After quiere, puede, or necesita, use the infinitives mostrar and explicar.
Combine the expanded actions
Interpret: You show the information and explain it here.
Module 35 checkpoint
You can now use muestra / mostrar and explica / explicar with familiar questions, helpers, objects, and sentence-building blocks.
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