"Dar" un paseo - To give a walk?
As I am taking some of these lessons, I start to notice some phrases where they provide other spanish terms to properly describe the action.
One example that I found interesting was "Voy al parque para dar un peaso" - I go to the park to go running, i looked up the work dar and it gave me the word give.
Is the wording "to give a walk" the correct context of how the spanish phrase is interrupted? because it sounds like an idiom of some sort from my perspective.
1 Answer
Hola HGK, y ¡bienvenido al foro!
It's not an idiom, any more than "to take" a walk is an English idiom. Why do you "take" a walk? Why not "do" a walk, or "make" a walk, or "have" a walk? Because that's the way you learned it and you never gave it a second thought.
When studying Spanish, it pays to read down the entire dictionary listing for all the meanings and variations. Look up "dar" again in SpanishDict. Maybe "dar un paseo" refers to #11 in the last list. -- to persist obstinately in doing a thing! ....OK, just kidding.
Dar means "to give" but it is also used to express an action (#10 in the first listing). Check it out. Hope this helps.
