Vocabulario-Cap.8
Halloween (in Spanish)
El día de las brujas o el Halloween
the face (in Spanish)
La cara
El año pasado mi hermano (hacía/hizo) un viaje a Australia.
hizo (pretetite, last year implies an action that has an end and that happened once)
Sleep more. (in Spanish, formal usted)
Duerma más.
that you talk (in Spanish, in the subjunctive)
que tú hables (hablar->changes to the opposite vowel e for the subjunctive)
Happy Mother's Day! (in Spanish)
Feliz día de la madre
La mano (even though it ends with an -o it's a feminine word!)
Cuando yo tenía 15 años (estudié/estudiaba) español.
estudié/estudiaba (both tenses work here but have a different meaning, estudié is preterite and refers to 15 years old as a single moment in time, estudiaba is imperfect and refers to any time in that year)
Ana and Susana, please don’t run in the house. (in Spanish, formal usted)
Ana y Susana, por favor no corran por la casa.
that we eat (in Spanish, in the subjunctive)
que comamos (the verb comer changes to the opposite vowel -a to make the subjunctive)
Thanksgiving Day (in Spanish)
El día de Acción de Gracias
My throat hurts. (in Spanish)
Me duele la garganta.
¿Cómo se (llamaba/llamó) la protagonista del mito?
llamaba (imperfect, background information)
Drink vitamins (in Spanish, formal usted)
Tome las vitaminas.
It’s important that you stop smoking.
Es importante que usted deje de fumar.
Easter (in Spanish)
La Pascua o Domingo de Pascua
They have a cough. (in Spanish)
Ellos/Ellas/Elles tienen tos.
El año pasado mi mejor amigo(a) (viajaba/viajó) a Cuba.
viajó (preterite, action that has an end and happened once)
Call me in the morning. (in Spanish, formal usted)
Llámeme en la mañana.
No (puedo/pueda) dormir, Memo.
No puedo dormir, Memo. (indicative, doesn't need the subjunctive because we only have one subject and one verb)
She dressed up in a costume. (in Spanish)
Se disfrazó.
Tiene fiebre.
Cuando (despertó/despertaba) el dinosaurio todavía (estuvo/estaba) allí.
despertó (preterite, actions that move the story forward).... estaba (imperfect, background information)
Open your mouth. (in Spanish, formal usted)
Te recomiendo que (cuentes/cuentas) ovejas (sheep) hasta dormirte.
cuentes (subjunctive, has two verbs and the verb recomiendo is the R of the WEIRDO that requires the subjunctive)