Spanish Courses

Spanish / English Dictionary

Spanish Forum

Join our community of Spanish language learners! Visit our Spanish forum now.

Ask questions
Meet people
Discuss travels
View funny photos with Spanish captions

Conversational Spanish

Verb Conjugator

Link to Us

Like this site? Please support it by linking to us.

Spanish Language Schools

Our directory of Spanish language schools is the most comprehensive on the Internet. For an in-depth search, we recommend using our Advanced Search.

Browse by Country:

Learn Spanish Online

Travel

The users of this website have accumulated quite a few travel logs, or travel diaries, which provide personal accounts of their stay in Latin America or other Spanish speaking travel destinations.

Browse Travel Blogs by Country:

Social Bookmarking

Hace with Time Expressions

A. Hace with the preterite tense is equivalent to English "ago":
Llegué hace mucho tiempo. I arrived long time ago.
B. Hace/Hacía used with the present or the imperfect express
"have been/had been doing something for...":
Hace dos horas que esperamos. We have been waiting for two hours.
Hacía dos horas que dormíamos. We had been sleeping for two hours.
While these word orders are the most frequently used, you will see other usages, notably Hace mucho tiempo que llegué as a variant of A.

Category: Study Spanish

» login