"Lo fallaste"
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Is this another way to say "No tienes razón", "Estas equivocado" or something else? Gracias.
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updated May 29, 2010
posted by jeezzle
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Gekkosan
My one time colleague Lucho ...... used quite often to say "fallaste" in exactly this sense - a metaphorical failure of a hypothetical exam - when he really wanted to say that he disagreed.
updated Apr 21, 2010
posted by geofc
There is such a diversity to Spanish that it could very well be that in some places it is used as an idiom or slang in that way. But it is not the correct meaning. - Gekkosan, Apr 21, 2010
You are from Mexico Gekkosan? That is the Spanish lingo I am after mainly Gracias. - jeezzle, Apr 21, 2010
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Not really... You can say just "Fallaste" to mean "You missed" (most common) or "You failed."
A somewhat contrived situation might be if someone comes and says: "Bueno, adivina qué pasó con mi examen", and the reply "Oh...lo fallaste!" ("you failed"), but that's not a construction that would come naturally to me.
It definitely does not have an application as "you're wrong", though.
updated Apr 21, 2010
posted by Gekkosan
Oh, so it means you failed and not "you got it wrong" or " - jeezzle, Apr 21, 2010
Right. You failed or your missed. "Fallaste el tiro" You missed the shot (and the buck got away). - Gekkosan, Apr 21, 2010
