Era tal como yo pensé.

Sentence Discussions Spanish
#1

I don’t really understand the use of tal

#2

I tend to think of ‘tal’ as ‘such’. A word-for-word translation of the sentence would be “It was such as I thought”. With a bit of a nudge this becomes “It was just like I thought”.

It’s one of those words that doesn’t have a one-to-one match in English, so it necessary to get a feel for it various uses.

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#3

why isn’t “pensaba” accepted?

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#4
English Translation

It was just as I thought.

Would it make sense without the “tal”? “Era como yo pensé”?

#5

Yes, but tal makes it broader - “It was about what I thought”