the causative Hi I am studying that we use the causative when somebody does something for us, e.g. "I'm going to have my room cleaned". But, the sentence "we are going to have my house painted" was tr

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the causative Hi I am studying that we use the causative when somebody does something for us, e.g. "I'm going to have my room cleaned". But, the sentence "we are going to have my house painted" was tranlated "vamos a pintar la casa". You can find this sentence in "2000 bilingual phrases". Could you tell me if there is some mistake? Thank you P.s.: sorry, I am Spanish and I do a quite a lot of mistakes

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Hi - Yes I think these sentence both indicate you will not do the work yourself. In the second one, I think you have made a small mistake. I'd suggest 'We are going to have OUR house painted.'

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