LC1-2022/28feb,25,31mar Flashcards
It brings back good memories for me.
It brought back good memories for me.
It has brought back good memories for me.
Me trae buenos recuerdos.
Me trajo buenos recuerdos.
Me ha traído buenos recuerdos.
to bring back memories
use traer recuerdos NOT dar recuerdos use bring (back) memories not to give memories.
Other objects in the woodshed are a wheelbarrow, three axes, a bucket, snow shovels, and shovels for digging.
Otros objetos que hay en la leñera son una carretilla, tres haches, una cubeta, palas de nieve y palas para cavar. (need que hay in this sentence - you can´t leave out that are in Spanish)
cavar - to dig like a cave, to dig up like a cadaver
I (VS) am seated at my desk in front of my studio window in my cabin looking out.
Estoy sentada a mi escritorio frente a la ventana de mi estudio en mi cabaña mirando hacia afuera.
(I´m looking towards the outside)
I have again listened to the lesson sobre xxx
He vuelto a escuchar la lección sobre xxx
If you use volver a + inf you do not have to use otra vez o de nuevo because volver a + inf means to do something AGAIN.
He escuchado de nuevo la lección sobre - can also use this but it seems he vuelto is more common
volver a - place (to return)
volver a inf (to do sth again)
to return, come back, go back, to do again
volver
I feel like I know more about the topic now but I do not feel absolutely sure.
Siento que ahora sé más sobre el tema pero no me siento absolutamente segura.
sentir + que + conjugated verb (in subj or indic)
sentirse + adj
I feel as if I need more practice.
Me siento como si necesitara más práctica.
sentirse + como si + imp subj
I remember that I gave you the keys.
Recuerdo que te di las llaves.
I have to clean everything/ it all up again.
Tengo que volver a limpiarlo todo.
Tengo que limpiar todo de nuevo.
volver a + inf = to do something again
I can´t find my keys. I must have left them in the house.
No puedo encontrar mis llaves. Las habré dejado en casa. future perfect for supposition in the recent past.
I have made a huge mistake/error.
He cometido un gran error.
better to say gran error than un error grande per Walter
el error=error/mistake
Can you help me catch the kids who rang the doorbell?
¿Puede ayudarme a atrapar a los niños que tocaron el timbre?
atrapar=to catch
capturar=to capture, more official, police often involved
to pack/package/bale
empacar - LA
empaquetar
hope, excitement
la illusión (also means illusion)
to play/mess around, be naughty/mischevious, to talk wittily
Stop messing around, kids.
travesear
Dejen de travesear, chicos,
think like it is a travesty to see, the naughty kids (think Scarlett when she really pitched a fit (ella era muy traviesa)- it was a travesty to see, presented how children should behave in a very bad way)
travieso - adj. naughty
The hills were bathed in the brilliant noon sunlight.
La luz del sol flamante de mediodía bañaba las colinas.
the light of the sun, brilliant, of noon, bathed the hills.
Las colinas estaban bañadas por la flamante/brillante luz del sol del mediodía.
el colibrí/el chupaflor = the hummingbird
Hay colibríes en las colinas.
flamante - brand-new, brilliant
brillante - brilliant
brand-new, brilliant, fabulous
flamante adj
Mi carro flamante.
my car´s registration/license plate
la matrícula de mi carro
license plate - also la placa de matrícula
old meaning of matrícula - to register something officially
matriculado - adj. registered, enrolled, matriculated
matricular - to register, to enroll, to matriculate
to search/seize/requisition/confiscate
Remember when they confiscated my gin at the Sudanese border?
requisar
¿Recuerdas cuando me requisaron la ginebra en la frontera sudanesa? those horrible men required me to poor it down the drain! think about the picture - required me to or I don´t know what they would have done to me - the righteous creeps
La policía requisó todas las casas del barrio. The police searched all the houses in the neighborhood.
Te traía unas frutas de mi país pero me las requisaron en la aduana.
I’d brought you some fresh fruit from my country, but it was confiscated at customs.
The police searched all the houses in the neighborhood.
La policía registró todas las casas del barrio/de la vecindad.
also registró - registrar=to search/register/record
la policía - the police force - females are a greater FORCE
el policía - the police man
la mujer policía - the police woman
the misunderstanding
the miscommunication
el malentendido
la falta de comunicación o el malentendido
(incomunicación is lack of communication/isolation)
Do not try to bribe me! (ud.)
No trate de/intentes sobornarme.
the police station/precinct
la comisaria (where the police eat you up) la estación de policía
I knew nothing about the car being stolen.
No sabía nada de que el carro estuviera robado.
el carro está robado
(could use ser-fuera depending on context)
2 subj, 2 clauses joined by que = subjunctive
in this case in the past so imp subj
I didn´t know I had to have a contract.
No sabía que tenía que tener un contrato.
no change of subject, so even though there is a que it is not subjunctive
to ring the bell
tocar el timbre
the police force the police (individual people)
la policia
el policía = policeman
la mujer policía = policewoman
the sunlight
la luz del sol - el sol
