LC1-2022/28feb,25,31mar

Question 1

It brings back good memories for me.
It brought back good memories for me.
It has brought back good memories for me.

Answer 1

Me trae buenos recuerdos.
Me trajo buenos recuerdos.
Me ha traído buenos recuerdos.

Question 2

to bring back memories

Answer 2

use traer recuerdos NOT dar recuerdos
use bring (back) memories not to give memories.

Question 3

Other objects in the woodshed are a wheelbarrow, three axes, a bucket, snow shovels, and shovels for digging.

Answer 3

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

Question 4

I (VS) am seated at my desk in front of my studio window in my cabin looking out.

Answer 4

Estoy sentada a mi escritorio frente a la ventana de mi estudio en mi cabaña mirando hacia afuera.
(I´m looking towards the outside)

Question 5

I have again listened to the lesson sobre xxx

Answer 5

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)

Question 6

to return, come back, go back, to do again

Answer 6

volver

Question 7

I feel like I know more about the topic now but I do not feel absolutely sure.

Answer 7

Siento que ahora sé más sobre el tema pero no me siento absolutamente segura.
sentir + que + conjugated verb (in subj or indic)
sentirse + adj

Question 8

I feel as if I need more practice.

Answer 8

Me siento como si necesitara más práctica.

sentirse + como si + imp subj

Question 9

I remember that I gave you the keys.

Answer 9

Recuerdo que te di las llaves.

Question 10

I have to clean everything/ it all up again.

Answer 10

Tengo que volver a limpiarlo todo.
Tengo que limpiar todo de nuevo.

volver a + inf = to do something again

Question 11

I can´t find my keys. I must have left them in the house.

Answer 11

No puedo encontrar mis llaves. Las habré dejado en casa. future perfect for supposition in the recent past.

Question 12

I have made a huge mistake/error.

Answer 12

He cometido un gran error.
better to say gran error than un error grande per Walter
el error=error/mistake

Question 13

Can you help me catch the kids who rang the doorbell?

Answer 13

¿Puede ayudarme a atrapar a los niños que tocaron el timbre?
atrapar=to catch
capturar=to capture, more official, police often involved

Question 14

to pack/package/bale

Answer 14

empacar - LA

empaquetar

Question 15

hope, excitement

Answer 15

la illusión (also means illusion)

Question 16

to play/mess around, be naughty/mischevious, to talk wittily

Stop messing around, kids.

Answer 16

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

Question 17

The hills were bathed in the brilliant noon sunlight.

Answer 17

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

Question 18

brand-new, brilliant, fabulous

Answer 18

flamante adj

Mi carro flamante.

Question 19

my car´s registration/license plate

Answer 19

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

Question 20

to search/seize/requisition/confiscate

Remember when they confiscated my gin at the Sudanese border?

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

The police searched all the houses in the neighborhood.

Answer 21

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

Question 22

the misunderstanding

the miscommunication

Answer 22

el malentendido
la falta de comunicación o el malentendido
(incomunicación is lack of communication/isolation)

Question 23

Do not try to bribe me! (ud.)

Answer 23

No trate de/intentes sobornarme.

Question 24

the police station/precinct

Answer 24

la comisaria  (where the police eat you up)
la estación de policía

Question 25

I knew nothing about the car being stolen.

Answer 25

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

Question 26

I didn´t know I had to have a contract.

Answer 26

No sabía que tenía que tener un contrato.

no change of subject, so even though there is a que it is not subjunctive

Question 27

to ring the bell

Answer 27

tocar el timbre

Question 28

the police force
the police (individual people)

Answer 28

la policia
el policía = policeman
la mujer policía = policewoman

Question 29

the sunlight

Answer 29

la luz del sol - el sol