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Verb and noun placement.

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Reir / mucho con tu familia

Ask: Ríes mucho con tu familia? Say: Sí, reímos mucho durante las días festivos.

I must use the verb Reir along with mucho tu familia.

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updated Oct 2, 2010
posted by rcmango

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Then your response seems to be lacking mi familia.

Sí, mi familia y yo nos reímos mucho .....

and if you must use tu, then add. ¿Y tú? Te ríes mucho con tu familia? (ask him the same question in return)

updated Oct 2, 2010
edited by 0074b507
posted by 0074b507
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Reírse is a reflexive verb, and días is masculine:

¿Te ríes mucho con tu familia? Sí, nos reímos mucho durante los días festivos.

Other than that it looks good.

updated Oct 1, 2010
edited by KevinB
posted by KevinB
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Thankyou for all your feedback, I appreciate it very much!

updated Oct 2, 2010
posted by rcmango
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I am not so sure that "reír" must always be used in its pronominal form, as a reflexive verb.

In my Harper Collins desktop dictionary, I find "reír" listed as an intransitive verb:

1 [persona] to laugh

No me hagas reír. = Don't make me laugh.

echarse a reír = to burst out laughing

• MODISMO: reír como un loco = to laugh one's head off

• REFRANES: El que ríe el último, ríe mejor o más fuerte. = He who laughs last laughs longest.

2 (liter) [ojos] to laugh (liter), sparkle

[campo, mañana, naturaleza] to sparkle, glow

Next it lists reír as a transitive verb:

to laugh at

Todos le ríen los chistes. = Everybody laughs at his jokes.

And in the pronominal form, as a reflexive verb, reírse:

1 to laugh

• reírse con algo/alguien Todos se ríen con sus chistes. = Everybody laughs at his jokes.

Siempre nos reímos con él. = We always have a good laugh with him.

• reírse **de alguien/algo** = to laugh at somebody/something

Se está riendo de mí. He's laughing at me.

¿De qué te ríes? What are you laughing at?

• MODISMO: ¡Déjame que me ría! That's a good one!

And look at this odd translation, in which the reflexive form can mean "estar roto":

Estos zapatos se ríen. These shoes are split wide open at the toes. La chaqueta se me ríe por los codos. My jacket has worn through at the >elbows.

© HarperCollins 2009

Maybe to be a bit different, romango can have his family laugh at someone's jokes, or have their eyes sparkle, or describe the family as all wearing jackets worn through at the elbowswink

updated Oct 1, 2010
posted by Janice