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Spanish Text:
"La visión de las estrellas siempre me hace soñar". - Vincent van Gogh

English Translation:
"The sight of the stars always makes me dream." - Vincent van Gogh

Grammar Notes:
"La visión de las estrellas siempre me hace soñar."
- Vincent van Gogh

### Word-by-Word Explanation

1. La
- Meaning: "The"
- Type: Definite article (feminine singular)
- Usage: Refers specifically to "visión," which is feminine in Spanish.

2. visión
- Meaning: "vision" or "sight"
- Type: Noun (feminine)
- Usage: This is the subject of the sentence, referring to the sight or vision of the stars.

3. de
- Meaning: "of" or "from"
- Type: Preposition
- Usage: Used here to link "visión" to "las estrellas," indicating possession or association—"the vision of the stars."

4. las
- Meaning: "the"
- Type: Definite article (feminine plural)
- Usage: Refers to "estrellas," which is feminine and plural.

5. estrellas
- Meaning: "stars"
- Type: Noun (feminine plural)
- Usage: The object of "de," completing "the vision of the stars."

6. siempre
- Meaning: "always"
- Type: Adverb
- Usage: Adds emphasis to how consistently "the vision of the stars" causes the action of dreaming.

7. me
- Meaning: "me" or "to me"
- Type: Pronoun (first person singular)
- Usage: Acts as the indirect object, indicating that the action (makes dream) is directed toward "me."

8. hace
- Meaning: "makes" or "causes"
- Type: Verb (third person singular present of hacer - infinitive form: hacer)
- Usage: "Hacer" here implies that seeing the stars causes the speaker to dream.

9. soñar
- Meaning: "to dream"
- Type: Verb (infinitive)
- Usage: Represents the action caused by "hacer." It stays in the infinitive form to complete the phrase "makes me dream."

### General Grammar Tip

In Spanish, the verb hacer can often be used with another verb in the infinitive form to mean "to make (someone) do something." In this structure, hacer is conjugated to agree with the subject (here, "la visión"), and the infinitive verb (soñar) remains in its base form to describe the resulting action.

Related Words:
- ver - "to see"
- observar - "to observe"
- imaginar - "to imagine," often used in a similar emotional or visionary context.

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