Perfective-Imperfective (2) - Habitual

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"Patrick C. Ryan" <proto-language at email.msn.com> wrote:

>Is it therefore appropriate to say that:

>'Lisa suele fumar'

>can be interpreted as: 'Lisa is accustomed to smoking'?

>And if 'Lisa is used to smoking' is equivalent to 'Lisa is accustomed to
>smoke', is it possible, in some contexts, for 'Lisa suele fumar' to be
>interpreted as virtually equivalent to 'Lisa esta' acostumbrada a fumar'?

If you consider English "Lisa used to smoke" to be in some
contexts virtually equivalent to "Lisa was used to smoking".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl