Perfective-Imperfective (2) - Habitual

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

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

>As for soler, a Spanish expert would have to make a judgment here but I
>suspect strongly that soler in the present tense can be exactly rendered by
>*another* English idiom:

>'to be used to V+ing', as in

>'Lisa is used to smoking', which looks at habituality from its affect on the
>agent.

That would be "Lisa esta acostumbrada a fumar".  "Lisa suele
fumar" can be translated as "Lisa usually smokes", or simply
"Lisa smokes".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl