Day 2A/4n22nov//24//jul 23 Flashcards
the machine gun
la ametralladora
(ah-meh-trah-yah-DOH-rah)
FEMININE NOUN
dora - the machines that does the word, like lavadora
ametrallar - to machine gun, to bombard
Any form of a request requires the imperative, but you can make it softer by using the word “por favor”.
Cualquier forma de pedir requiere el imperativo, pero puede hacerlo más cortés al usar el término “por favor”.
Ud Give it to me please.
Tú Give it to me please.
Ud. démelo por favor
tú dámelo por favor
In any case, I must remember that the term is anyway or in any case and does not use for.
De todos modos, debo recordar que es DE todos modos y no se usa POR todos modos. ASKING JULIO
By all means is por supuesto, o claro que si.
subj? change of subj, 2 indep clauses
also you can use de todas formas or de todas maneras but NOT POR!!!
Por supuesto also means of course
There were a lot of rockets exploding.
Hubo muchos cohetes estallando.
The tickets were not free (nor free) but rather we had to pay a lot for them.
Los boletos/los tiquetes no fueron gratis ni gratuitos sino que tuvimos que pagar mucho por ellos. pagar por is an exchange
I would like to introduce you to my brother who has a deck of cards.
Quisiera presentarle a mi hermano quién tiene un juego de cartas. also un mazo de cartas ASKING JULIO
How may I help you ma’am? Would you like a bunch of plantains or a bouquet of flowers?
¿En qué puedo ayudarla, señora? ¿Quisiera un racimo de plátanos o un ramo de flores? LE o LA asking Julio
racimo for like cluster-bunch of bananas, grapes
ramo for flowers ramo also means bunch
Rama - branch
Sede - like an admin headquarters
Sucursal - office/branch
By any chance/by chance, are you part of a branch of the armed services?
¿Por casualidad es usted parte de alguna rama de las fuerzas armadas?
una rama - branch
un ramo - bouquet
un racimo - bunch
or a branch of a tree = una rama de un árbol
Sucursal - branch/office
Bombs were crashing and exploding all around us.
I was behind a tank in Irak that exploded.
Las bombas estaban estrellándose y estallando alrededor de nosotros.
Yo estaba/estuve detrás de un tanque en Irak que estalló.
estrellarse - to crash/smash
estallar - to explode, erupt, burst, shatter
estrellarSE but estallar JUST BECAUSE
the crash was caused by itsef hitting something but the explosion does not use SE - así es la vida
Ehs tah Yahr
It is difficult to change behavior overnight.
Es difícil cambiar comportamiento de la noche a la mañana.
think from the night to the day, de la noche a la mañana
but El perro está ladrando día y noche. The dog is barking day and night.
He changed overnight for the worse.
Cambió de la noche a la mañana para peor.
from the night to the morning-day
You say “we like each other” to say that two people, or more, like each other. If you want to say, we like something, it is just “we like something-we liked something-we liked something” etc.
We like the book. We like the books. We like each other.
Se dice “nos gustamos” para decir que dos personas, o más, se gustan. Si se quiere decir “nos gusta algo”, se dice simplemente “nos gusta algo, nos gustó algo, nos gustaba algo”, etc.
Nos gusta el libro. Nos gustan los libros. Nos gustamos.
Ud. Please leave the door slightly open.
Por favor, deje la puerta entreabierta.
I satisfy the requirements. I satisfied the requests.
to satisfy - conjugate in present and preterite
Satisfago los requisitos. Satisfice las peticiones.
satisfacer
conjugación is the same as deshacer!!!! the same as hacer
satisfago satisfice
satisfaces satisficiste
satisface satisfizo
satisfacemos satisficimos
satisfacen satisficieron
