La Palabra del Día: Espantar
Espantar
to frighten, to scare away, to scare, to shock
Special thanks to CentralAM for the idea for this word
If you have ideas for good words, please send me a PM – I will make it a future word of the day.
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My Example:
Mi empresa está alquilando un depósito. Una mujer y yo estábamos visitando el depósito cuando vimos un ratón, la mujer se espantó y gritó mientras yo me partía de risa.
My company is renting a warehouse. A woman and I were visiting the warehouse when we saw a mouse – the woman was scared to death, and she screamed while I was laughing…
27 Answers
Un espantapájaros es completamente inútil cuando atraiga atrae los pájaros que debe espantar.
A scarecrow is absolutely useless when it attracts the birds it has to scare away.
Mi hijo le gusta hacer "dulce o truco" en la Noche de Brujas pero a veces los otros disfraces de los otros niños te espanta.
With Naomi_Callas's corrections:
A mi hijo le gusta hacer "dulce o truco" en la Noche de Brujas pero a veces los disfraces de los otros niños le espantan.
My son likes to "trick or treat" on Halloween but sometimes the other children's costumes scare him.
Espanta perros de no los entiende
She fears dogs cause she doesn't understand them .
I don't scare off easily. No me espanto fácilimente.
First Attempt: Siento, pero casas del terror estás no aterrador.
Second Attempt: Algunos personas están espantaron de las casas embrujadas, pero no soy.
Correction: Algunas personas se espantan con las casas embrujadas, pero yo no
Some people are frightened of haunted houses, but I'm not.
A round-the-clock “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” channel: All Kardashians, all the time. How awful!
Un canal de televisión de «Al día con los Kardashian» día y noche: Los Kardashian todo el tiempo. ¡Qué espanto!
¡Uuh! ¡Ohh! ¡Me espantaste! Pensé que fuiste fantasmo.
Boo! Wah! You scared me! I thought you were a ghost.
He instalado una valla eléctrica para espantar los ciervos en mi jardín. Ahora pueden oír el ruido del transformador y así que no la tocan.
I installed an electric fence to scare the deer in my garden. Now, they can hear the noise of the transformer and they do not touch it.
I saw on Marianne's flashcards that espantoso was used as awful which I thought was atroz.
espantoso to me mean scary.
A veces cuando no sabe una palabra o expresion en espanol es espantoso!
This horse has the perfect tail to shoo flies away.
Este caballo tiene la cola perfecta para espantar las moscas.
My attempt: A better translation is below the photograph.
Rattlesnakes coil and rattle their tails to scare away predators.
Las serpientes de cascabel enrollan y la víbora cascabelea a su cola para espantar los predadores.
I had a great deal of trouble with the verb ¨rattle¨ and I wanted to thank several people for their help, which I'm doing through the International Café! Please [click here][2] for my short experience of how Spanish speakers and learners have warmed my heart!
@Vicente Is this one better and closer to everyday Spanish?
Las víboras de cascabel, se enroscan y cascabelean sus colas para espantar (ahuyentar) a sus depredadores.
Manchester City espantó Manchester United hoy cuando ellos mararon dos goales en la secunda tiempo.
Manchester City 2 3 Machester United.
