The last question i will have until tonight, thanks for everybody's help.

Question

I want to say "The guns belched smoke" and i have to use the work el humo.

I have, "Las pistolas escupen el humo."

Answer 1

This is how smoke would belch out of a chimney or a volcano, so I imagine that it would be a good verb to use in the present tense (if you are saying it in the past tense then you might want to conjugate your verb accordingly)

thank you :) - sunshinzmommie, Oct 5, 2009

Answer 2

Las pistolas arrojaron fuego

Las pistolas escupieron fuego.

These are common knowledge phrases.

I am relating the sentence to how the indians saw the new weapons of the Spaniards. According to de las Casas, they described them as armed with lightning that belches smoke. ;) you are always so helpful, thanks again - sunshinzmommie, Oct 5, 2009

Answer 3

I would say something to the effect of:

Las armas tiraron humo...

Wouldn't tiraron be more along the lines of "shot out"? - Izanoni1, Oct 5, 2009