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Spanish Text:
Surcar el cielo como un águila. ¿Quién no querría hacerlo?

English Translation:
Soaring through the sky like an eagle. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Grammar Notes:
1. Surcar - This verb means "to plow," "to cut through," or "to sail." In this context, it means "to soar" or "to navigate" through the sky.

2. el - This is the definite article "the" in English. It's used before masculine singular nouns.

3. cielo - This noun means "sky" or "heaven."

4. como - This word means "like" or "as." It is used to make comparisons.

5. un - This is the indefinite article "a" or "an" in English. It's used before masculine singular nouns.

6. águila - This noun means "eagle." Note that while "águila" is feminine, it uses "un" instead of "una" because it starts with a stressed "a" sound.

7. ¿Quién - This means "Who." It is a pronoun used to ask questions about people.

8. no - This means "not" and is used to make a sentence negative.

9. querría - This is the conditional form of the verb "querer," which means "to want." "Querría" means "would want."

10. hacerlo - This word is a combination of the verb "hacer" (to do/make) and the pronoun "lo" (it). Together, "hacerlo" means "to do it."

### Sentence Structure and Translation

- "Surcar el cielo como un águila." - "To soar through the sky like an eagle."
- "¿Quién no querría hacerlo?" - "Who wouldn't want to do it?"

### Grammar Tip

When using verbs in the conditional form, such as "querría," it often expresses a hypothetical situation or polite requests. The conditional form is created by adding the endings "-ía," "-ías," "-ía," "-íamos," "-íais," "-ían" to the infinitive form of the verb. For example:
- Yo querría (I would want)
- Tú querrías (You would want)
- Él/Ella querría (He/She would want)
- Nosotros querríamos (We would want)
- Vosotros querríais (You all would want)
- Ellos/Ellas querrían (They would want)

### Related Words

1. Cortar - This verb means "to cut" and can be related to "surcar" in the sense of making a path through something.
2. Volar - This verb means "to fly" and is another action an eagle might perform in the sky.
3. El ave - This noun means "the bird" and can be used to refer to birds in general, similar to how "águila" refers specifically to an eagle.

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