Spanish B2 · Day 28
Day 28: Cooperativas y huertas — Purpose in formal registers
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Purpose in formal registers
- Reading: Un salto sin red: el camino de Rocío hacia la cooperativa
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Grammar point: Purpose in formal registers
Purpose clauses express the aim behind an action. In a formal register they answer «¿Con qué fin?» (With what aim?) or «¿Con qué objeto?» (For what purpose?). English often uses "in order to" or "so that." Everyday Spanish prefers "para" and "para que"; official prose mainly uses "con el fin de" plus infinitive and "con el fin de que" plus the subjunctive.
Key vocabulary (8 of 19 words)
- la horticultura – horticulture
- el regadío – irrigated farming
- la huerta – irrigated market garden
- recolectar (ha recolectado) – to harvest
- el bancal, los bancales – crop terrace
- la parcela, las parcelas – plot
- el hortelano / la hortelana – market gardener
- el fitosanitario, los fitosanitarios – plant-protection product
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