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retar
to dare someoone to do something
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atreverse a
to dare your self to do something
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Realizar
to carry out, to achieve
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Darse cuenta de
to realize, or recogonize
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dejar + direct object means
- to leave something,
- dejé mi auto en el estacionamiento (i left my car in the parking lot)
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dejar + infinitive
- to allow or to let
- mis padres no me dejaban conducir de noche. (My
- parents didn’t let me drive at night)
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dejar de + infinitive + direct object
- to stop doing something
- dejaste de buscar un auto Nuevo (did you stop looking
- for a new car)
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un poco de
- to express a Little
- necesitamos un poco de combustible. (We need a Little fuel.)
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Pocos/pocas
- few (with respect to a limit in number) there are few
- energy sources left.
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Poco/poca
- to express little with respect to amount, scope or degree
- Tristemente, usamos poca energía solar. (Sadly, we use little solar energy.)
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Pequeño/a/s
- small, little
- Aun los bosques pequenos son importantes. (Even small forests are important)
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calidad
- Quality in measures of worth.
- Todo depende de la calidad de los materials. (Everything
- depends on the quality of materials.)
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Cualidad
- quality as in characteristics of a person or thing
- Su dedicadion es la cualidad que mas admire en el. His
- dedication is the quality I most admire in him.
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Recordar/acordarse
synonymous for rememebr
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acordar
to agree, resolve by common consent
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Quedarse
to stay in place jose se quedo en chile hast 2006.
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Quedar
- be left/remain (used with an adj)
- laura quedo triste con la noticia. She was left sad by the news.
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Quedar
- to be located
- la casa queda cerca de la estacion de trenes.
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Soportar
to put up with, to tolerate
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El recuerdo
memory as in remembrance
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La memoria
memory (capacity)
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Pero
when second part of the sentence does no correct the first part
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Sino
- when the first part of the sentence is negative and the second part is a noun, adj, adverb, prepositional phrase that corrects the same in the first part.
- No yo vanidoso sino sensible
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Sino que
- if the second part of the sentence has a new verb.
- manuel no se obesiona con las artes sino que se apasiona por ellas.
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Querer
want a thing, activity, or to love someone
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Amar
means to love someone deeply, family, religious, deep love.
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DO NOT need a preposition even though in English they do.
- Agradecer to thank for
- Buscar to look for
- Esperar to wait for
- Pagar to pay for
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Excitante
to inspire a feeling of passion
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emocionante
thrilling, touching, exciting
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tocar
to play an instrument, and to knock
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Parercerse a
to look like
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Parecer
before an adj adverb or subordinate clause means to seem
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the + adj+ direct object
- the important thing is
- lo importante es
- lo +adj+singular masucline adj
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oler a
- to smell like
- hue, huele stem change,
- esta sopa huele a mariscos
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copa
wine glass, tomar una copa
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taza
hot drinks, measuring cup
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vaso
for most beverages, juice, milk, water etc.
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Abuser de than object that was taken advantage of or abused
El hombre abuso de la generosidad de mi tío
- Object following de
- el hombre abuso de la generosidad de mi tio
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funcionar
to function correctly, a machine
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servir
- devices that are no longer serving their purpose
- este diseño ya no seirve
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trabajar
labor, a persons work
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May I have the budget form
- puede traerme el presupuesto (can I have the budget please)
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I had coffee to drink
Don’t say tuve refereeing to having had something to drink use pedir, comer, tomar
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puesto que
since, because of, as a result of
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