La Palabra del Día: "El fondo"
El fondo:
(noun) bottom, back, background; depth; fund
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: No te preocupes. Ahora está en el fondo del mar.
Don't worry. Now it is at the bottom of the sea.
2: Tenemos un fondo de $10.000 para emergencias.
We have a $10,000 emergency fund.
20 Answers
¿Has visto alguna vez un pozo sin fondo?
Have you ever seen a bottomless pit?
Edit:
Cada año nadé en una natación para augmentar fondos a limpiar el Bajo de Narragansett.
Original: Cada año nadé en una natación para augmentar fundos a limpiar el Bajo de Narragansett.
Every year I swim in a swimming competition that raises funds to clean Narragansett Bay.
La cuestión de fondo en este hilo es que nadie corrige nada y entonces se tranforma en un ejercicio inutil.
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The main issue in this thread is that no one corrects anything and then it becomes a useless practice.
Un buceador tiene ganas de que esté descubriendo el fondo del oceáno.
A diver feels like he is discovering the bottom of the ocean.
Espero tener suficiente dinero ir en vacaciones este año despues de pongo unos fondos en mi cuenta de retiro. - I hope that I have enough money to go on vacation this year after I put some money in my retirement account.
En el fondo del pozo de agua,podría encontrar muchos deseos.
In the bottom of a water well,you might find many wishes.
En la historia, Javier no puede descubrir a su novia hasta que oigala llamar a él; ella está en la fondo del pozo.
In the story, Javier cannot discover his girlfriend until he hears her calling to him; she is at the bottom of the well.
I must have read the word "fondo" at least twenty times in that story! It was creepy!
El hombre creyó en el fondo de su corazón que no violencia es mejor politica para luchar contra la injusticia.
The man believed from deep in his heart that non violence is the best policy to fight against injustice.
We have been looking for crabs on the bottom of the sea. Hemos estado buscando cangrejos en el fondo del mar.
The clerk was telling me that I could find the cups at the back of the store.
El mancebo de la tienda estaba diciendome que podría encontrar las tazas al fondo de la tienda.
¿Sabías que las ballenas Cachalotes pueden bucear hasta el fondo del oceano? Ellas bucean llegando a profundidades de 3000 o 4000 metros en busca de comida como peces y calamares gigantes.
Do you know that Sperm Wahle can dive until the ocean bottom? They dive into 1.9 or 2.5 miles of deep looking for food like fish and giant squid.
Lionel Messi sabe poner la pelota en el fondo de la red. Lionel Messi knows how to put the ball in the back of the net.
Encontré el gato en el fondo de su armario.
I found the cat at the bottom of your closet.
Hay una estatua al fondo de la calle.
There's a statue at the bottom of the street.
Cariño estás palabras vienen a ti del fondo del corazón. Darling these words come to you from the bottom of my heart.
