La Palabra del Día: "Torpe"
Torpe:
clumsy, uncoordinated; slow, dim-witted
Use today's Word of the Day in your own Spanish and English sentences. Try to use the word in a completely new way and vote on the sentences you like best. The sentence with the most votes will be crowned the Word of the Day winner!
Guidelines:
- Write sentences at least 5 words long, but don't write a paragraph either.
- Write your Spanish sentence, but include the English translation as well.
- Make the corrections suggested by other users and moderators in the comments section (try not to use personal pronouns unless absolutely necessary).
- Use your own words! (Don't use a translator, copy from a book, use song lyrics, etc.)
- Have fun experimenting with Spanish!
My examples
1: ¡Qué torpe eres! Se te cayó el bolígrafo tres veces.
You are so clumsy! You've dropped your pen three times.
2: Lo siento, pero soy un poco torpe para las matemáticas.
I'm sorry, but I'm a little slow when it comes to math.
12 Answers
Sr. Bean es un personaje muy torpe, ¡sin embargo me encanta!
Mr. Bean is a very dim-witted character, yet I Iove him all the same!
Los castores son nadadores soberbios y usan sus grandes colas planas de para el mejor control, pero están torpes en tierra. ¡O, tal vez no!
Beavers are superb swimmers and use their large flat tails for better control, but they are clumsy on land. Or, maybe not!
I feel dim-witted when I wake up in the morning.
Me siento torpe cuando me despierto en la mañana.
Usualmente, no soy tan torpe. Pero hoy no es mi día.
I'm usually not so clumsy, but today is just one of those days.
(No sabía decir "one of those days")
Yo Era torpe cuando yo era un niño pequeño. I was clumsy when I was a small child.
íQué torpe soy! Me temo que la he ofendido.
How clumsey of me. I'm afraid I've offended her.
La gente a veces reir a mí reírse se ríen de mi intento torpe mis torpes intentos de hablar español.
People sometimes laugh at my clumsey clumsy attempt attempts to speak Spanish.
I like golf and wish that my game was better but I am really only a duffer.
Me gusta el golf and deseo que mi juego era mejor, pero estoy realmente sólo un torpe.
"Mr. Hiccup" era un personaje de dibujos animados torpe que se mostró en la televisión para niños cuando era pequeña.
"Mr. Hiccup" was a clumsy cartoon caracter that was shown on tv for children when I was little.
Tengo una perra que está muy vieja, sorda y casi ciega, asi que está muy torpe ahora.
I have a dog which is very old, deaf and almost blind, so she is very clumsy now.
The man ''Baldrick' is another dimwitted character from the well-known T.V. series, called: ''Blackadder''
= El hombre ''Baldrick'' es otro personaje torpe bien conocido de la serie T.V. llamado ''Blackadder''
I would delete the comma after "man" and "hombre." Also, I would say "otro personaje bien conocido de la serie T.V. "Blackadder". - Paralee 1 hr ago
Original sentence:
El hombre, ''Baldrick'' es otro personaje torpe de la serie T.V. bien conocido, llamado ''Blackadder''
Mi hija es muy torpe y caes muchas pero ella es muy intelligente. - My daughter is very clumsy and falls a lot but she is very intelligent.
