El sol no da en los ojos... this means?
Why would DAR be used in this sentence?...El sol no da en los ojos.
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It's just the way the language is used. A huge part of learning the language is becoming acustomed to the way people really use it. Many constructions in any language are pretty arbitrary, but in our own language we don't question them because we understand "it's just the way it is."
Dar has 53 definitions (plus a similar number of phrases) in the drae and one of them is to hit: the sun doesn't hit my eyes.
Something like "the sun doesn't get in your eyes". Why use dar? Why not? You might even say "no pega en los ojos" as well. I guess it depends on where you are.
Also, dar means to give or to show,etc. El sol is the sun. No da los ojos- do not show or can't see with your eyes.
Why would DAR be used in this sentence?...El sol no da en los ojos.
If you think the usage of "dar" is problematic, imagine the poor non-English native struggling with "get" and "got."
The sun is not showing. -Or- The sun is not shining.
Sure and Mr. O'Brien, I keep saying "A la biblioteca" instead of "en la bibliteca" for "at the library". Of course "a" in Spanish means "to", but I keep thinking of it as "at". It's getting used to the way the language is spoken as Jeremias says. One thing, though, these kinds of incidents can reenforce the language as we use it.
