Is this use of "alborotar" correct?

Question

Ayer por la mañana los huevos con queso eran alborotar con un tenedor.

Yesterday morning the cheesy eggs were stirred up with a fork.

I was trying to use the word of the day "alborotar" in a sentence.

Remember I want to use the word of the day not "scramble" or a word derived from scramble in this sentence only. I also would like any corrections to other parts of the sentence. If you are able, please end your answer with a corrected full sentence translated in Spanish. Gracias.

¿Cómo lo hice? How did I do?

Answer 1

I think what they're trying to say is your sentence is incorrect on 2 accounts:

"Ayer por la mañana los huevos con queso eran alborotar con un tenedor."

You have to conjugate the verb: eran alborotados. Past participle or whatever it's called.

And alborotar, from my understanding, is more stir in the context of hyped up, gotten all excited with anticipation.

Espero que compraras ese juguete, ¡ya que te pusiste el niño alborotado con prometerlo!

I hope you bought that toy, since you got the kid all excited promising it!

That kind of thing.

For your context, use mezclar or revolver.

Ayer por la mañana los huevos eran revueltos/mezclados con un tenedor.

Buenas, Ash

Answer 2

Sorry Bandit, it's a context thing.

Stir up ... and ... stir up ... mean 2 totally different things. I see where you are going but stirring up trouble and whipping up a meal are entirely different.

I love a good play on words, so have at it. I just wasn't sure if you saw that.

Kind of like: I rowdied up the eggs by adding cheese.

But the next line totally gets away from me:

You should take confusion that is the past of fuss, in addition to better manage the sentence

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I think that was the machine translation - fontanero, Aug 7, 2010

Ah! Thanks. Can we get Gekko to "Dunce corner" that machine? - LateToDinner, Aug 7, 2010

Answer 3

Sorry bandit, just now i see mi mistake, you try to say

"Ayer por la mañana los huevos con queso eran alborotados con un tenedor."

"alborotados" is past perfect form in plural

Although this verb is not the most convenient way to define the action to be performed. I suggest using "mezclar" (mix) or "revolver" (stir) and in the perfect past form will be as follows "mezclados" (mixed) or "revueltos" (stirred?)

i add my translation of the other answer (well this is my best try, because i'm still learning...)

You should use "alborote", wich is the past of "alborotar", also try to reorder the sentence, in a better way, should read as follows:

"Yesterday morning stir up the eggs and cheese with a fork"

Although this verb is not the most convenient way to define the action to be performed. I suggest using "mezclar" (mix) or "revolver" (stir) and in the past form will be as follows "mezcle" (mixed) or "revolvi" (stirred)

saludos

Bien hecho :) voting! - Kiwi-Girl, Aug 7, 2010

Bien hecho :) voting! - Kiwi-Girl, Aug 7, 2010

Answer 4

Deberias ocupar Alborote, que es el pasado de alborotar, ademas de ordenar mejor la frase, debería quedar así:

"Ayer por la mañana alborote los huevos con queso con un tenedor"

Aunque este verbo no es el mas adecuado para definir la acción que se esta realizando. Te sugiero usar "mezclar" o "revolver" y que en pasado quedarian como "mezclé" o "revolví"

Saludos

Answer 5

djerez:

Would you please translate into English what you wrote? I just don't have enough Spanish and the machine translation I don't think is close enough to what you want to convey.

You should take confusion that is the past of fuss, in addition to better manage the sentence, should read as follows:

"Yesterday morning stir up the eggs and cheese with a fork"

Although this verb is not the most convenient way to define the action to be performed. I suggest using "mixed" or "revolver" and that in the past would remain as "mixed" or "stirred"

Regards