Picture of the Day: Snow fridge

Question

Post your comments/titles/captions to this picture (both in Spanish and English) and vote for the ones you like. The best answer will be chosen tomorrow on the basis of the greatest number of votes as well as the language correctness.

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Remember to correct your posts as suggested. Do NOT use subject pronouns!

Posts which are not corrected as suggested can NOT be "accepted".

Please give everyone a chance and only post one caption and no photos .

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My example:

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Toda esta nieve tiene algunas ventajas...

There are some advantages to all this snow...

• What a clever girl you are, now lets see you get out of this one then clever clogs! - ray76 Dec 23, 2010
• Too literal. The common expression in Spanish is: 'Toda esta nieve tiene algunas ventajas' or 'Toda esta nieve tiene sus ventajas..' - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• Thanks Bill :). - --Jen-- Dec 23, 2010
• Hi name , welcome back. - BellaMargari Dec 23, 2010

Answer 1

Era o bien palear la nieve o hacer una nevera para las cervezas.

It was either shovel snow or make a beer fridge.

• :-) - Echoline Dec 23, 2010
• This English expression: 'It was either do A or do B' is always translated with 'Era o bien hacer A o hacer B', not 'Fue..' - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• In this case: 'Era o bien palear la nieve, o hacer una nevera para las cervezas' ('de cervezas' would be ok too, but 'de cerveza' sounds as 'made out of beer') - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• Thank you - swampy Dec 23, 2010
• Good one, Swampy! - sanlee Dec 23, 2010

Answer 2

¿Neveras? ¿Quién necesita neveras?!

Refrigerators? Who needs refrigerators?!

• No necesitamos ningunas neveras pestes. (From "We don't need no stinking badges") - qfreed Dec 22, 2010
• That would be : 'No necesitamos ninguna maldita nevera..' (or 'apestosa nevera', but not 'neveras pestes') - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• By the way, 'ningunos/ningunas' is only used in very particular cases (as in 'ningunas ganas de'). In most cases, the equivalent of 'no + (plural noun)' is 'ningún/ninguna (nombre singular)' - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• Good one :) - FELIZ77 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 3

Es una buena cosa'que tuviéramos tanta nieve. Se fue la electricidad…¿y quién quiere beber cerveza caliente?

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It is a good thing we had so much snow. The electricity went out…and who wants to drink warm beer?

• 'buena cosa'. Also: 'que tuviéramos tanta nieve' (this needs to be in the subjunctive. In Spanish it sounds as one out of many possible options (no snow, little snow, a lot of snow..). Also, 'tanta' doesn't pair with 'mucha' (it already means 'so much') - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• 'Se fue la electricidad' (electricity just 'goes' in Spanish (se va) and 'returns' (vuelve). Typo: 'beer'. The last part would be: '¿y quién quiere beber cerveza tibia (or more commonly: caliente)?. The '¿' is put right before 'y quién' by the way. - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• Gracias Billstpor. - Rolest Dec 23, 2010

Answer 4

La casa se sacudió como loca cuando el camión de cerveza golpeó el montículo de nieve. Pero creo que vamos a esperar hasta mañana para llamar a la compañía de seguros.

The house shook like crazy when the beer truck hit the snow drift. But I think we'll wait until morning to call the insurance company.

• 'como loca'. Also, even though 'drift' means 'deriva' in Spanish, 'snowdrift' can't be translated as 'deriva de nieve'. That's called a '(el) montículo de nieve' ('montículo' is either a small hill, or something piled up in the shape of one ) - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 5

Esto es nuestro trastero en Finlandia

This is our storeroom in Finland.

• Good one, Vaanz! - sanlee Dec 23, 2010

Answer 6

Mientras no afecte a nuestro sentido del humor..
( As long as it does not affect our sense of humor.. )

..suggestions were implemented!

• This need subjunctive, preferably without 'que': 'Mientras no afecte a nuestro sentido del humor'. You could also use 'Siempre y cuando no afecte..' - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 7

Puesto que no podemos salir está bien que tengamos cerveza fría.
Since we can't go out it's a good thing we have cold beer.

• 'está bien' sounds better than 'es algo bueno'. And although 'tenemos' is not too bad, because of the first part of the sentence it's more appropriate to put it in the subjunctive: 'está bien que tengamos cerveza fría'. - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• If you had said it like this: 'We can't go out. Thankfully we have cold beer', then you would translate it as 'Afortunadamente tenemos cerveza fría'. - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• Thanks. - KevinB Dec 23, 2010

Answer 8

The wife's Christmas gift. What a cheapskate!

El regalo de Navidad para mi mujer. ¡Qué roñica!

• 'El regalo de Navidad para mi mujer (or 'para mi esposa')' 'Qué roñica' (without 'un') . (para la esposa) sounds as if you were talking about someone else's. - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• gracias, Billstpor. - Brynleigh Dec 23, 2010

Answer 9

Merry Christmas ,with love from Mother Nature. Feliz Navidad ,con amor de parte de la madre naturaleza.

• 'madre naturaleza' always has the article 'la'. And rather than 'desde', this use of 'from' is translated as 'de parte de' : 'de parte de la madre naturaleza'. - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• Gracias Bill . - jennyo45 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 10

¿Dónde está la leche?

Where is the milk?

Answer 11

Este es un incentivo para que alguien nos fuera a cavar.

This is incentive for someone to dig us out.

• Jajajaja. me gusta. =) - Toast Dec 23, 2010
• 'para que alguien nos saque de aquí cavando' ('saque' is a subjunctive form of 'sacar'= 'to take out') - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• (nos fuera a cavar) almost sounds 'good', in a colloquial way. But not thinking of 'fuera' as 'out', which makes no sense in Spanish.. Thinking of it as a subjunctive form of the verb 'ir' ('él fuera') - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 12

Finalmente un refrigerador digno de Frosty, el muñeco de nieve!

Finally, a refrigerator worthy of Frosty the snowman!

• 'Refrigerador' is masculine, so it goes with 'un'. - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 13

La necesidad es la madre de la invención.

Así que todo el mundo pasó un buen rato.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

So a good time was had by one and all.

• 'La necesidad es la madre de la invención'. 'Así que todo el mundo pasó un buen rato' (buen tiempo) or (había por todos) doesn't work. - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010
• Thank you bill. - ray76 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 14

Man, talk about being snowed-in!

¡Vaya! ¡Menuda avalancha de nieve!

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"Talk about" in this case, does not mean "hablar sobre algo"...consider another example below...

Man, talk about your hammers! = ¡Qué martillo! (Most likely it's a big, big hammer, but it could be a hammer that functions unexpectedly well...like drives the nails in in one blow or something)

With simple nouns, the phrase must include "your" and the whole formula is "talk about your" + plural noun. The word "man" is usually included but not always.

To put it another way, the thing being indicated is considered an outstanding example of some class of things--that is, it is much bigger, more grandiose, more beautiful, etc. than anything else in that class of things would be.

In my first sentence, "Talk about being snowed in," would mean that this is an unusually deep layer of snow...an unusually bad case of being snowed in.

• '¡Qué montón de nieve!' sounds a lot better than 'que aislamiento..'. Still, I would say something like: '¡Dios! ¡Menuda avalancha de nieve! (even if there has been no avalanche) - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010

Answer 15

"Te doy un tourcito de la casa... sí, aquí está nuestra "sala de nieve".... no es tan práctico para mantener, pero nunca nos falta tema de conversación!"

"I'll give you a wee tour of the house... yes, this here's our "snow room"... it's not that practical to keep, but we're never short of something to talk about!".

• Rather than 'no es tan práctico para mantener', which sounds too much like English grammar, you would say 'no es muy práctica, pero.. ' - bill1111 Dec 23, 2010