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Should I say “Salvador Dali fue un artista del siglo XX” or “Salvador Dali era un artista del siglo XX”?
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You could use both answer but the correct one is the use of "fue" as I'm "Salvador Dalí fue un artista del siglo XX" "fue" Is use to talk about what a person was in the past and "era" in this context is use to say what a person was part of in the past.
"fue" he was
"era un artista del siglo XX" he was part of the xx century artist movement.
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Both might be correct but whenthe past tense sentence is regard a person died we must use fue and no era
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