Spanish C2 · Day 4
Day 4: Retorno del arte virreinal expoliado — Conjectural tense choice (part 2)
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- Grammar: Conjectural tense choice (part 2)
- Reading: La inocencia del hueco firmado
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Grammar point: Conjectural tense choice (part 2)
When discussing the return of viceregal works, conjectural tenses separate where an object probably is, whether a removal has probably happened, and from which moment that inference is drawn. These are different relations. «El lienzo estará aún en un depósito sevillano» identifies a probable location.
Key vocabulary (8 of 31 words)
- la laguna de procedencia – gap in an artwork's ownership history
- la cadena de tenencia – succession of possessors
- la facultad de disposición – legal authority to dispose of property
- el despojo por secularización – dispossession of convent art through secularization
- la venta forzosa – sale made under coercion
- la restitución – restitution; return of wrongfully taken property
- la legitimación activa – standing to assert a claim
- la penuria probatoria – difficulty proving a claim because evidence is unavailable
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