La Palabra del Día: "importar"
importar (eem-por-tarr')
verb ( to matter, to be important, to mind )
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Examples:
1. Eres lo único que me importa.
You are the only important thing to me.
2. ¿A tí qué te importa?
What business is it of yours? / Why do you care?
Idioms:
1. Me importa un pepino
I couldn't care less
2. Me importa un rábano
I couldn't care less
33 Answers
Do you mind if I take the children to school?
¿Te importa si llevo los niños a la escuela?
Lo que más importa en la vida son las pequeñas cosas.
What matters most in life are the little things..
Hoy más que nunca, está es muy importante ser un miembro de la unión
porque el desempleo es un asunto muy importante.
Today more than ever , it is very important to belong to a union,
because unemployment is a very important issue.
I would like to have a store where I sell things that I import from Mexico.( I'm thinking of a way to decuct travel expenses)
Me gustaría tener una tienda donde venda las cosas que importo de Mexico.(Estoy tratando de una forma a deducir los gastos de viaje)
No importa para él que está dentro o fuera del agua en ambos lugares goza de una visión excelente .
To him, it doesn't matter whether he is in or out of the water, he enjoys excellent visual power in both places.
Todas las empresas importará más productos fabricados en el futuro. Me importa mucho, porque significará el pérdida de puestos de trabajo.
All companies will import more manufactured goods in the future. It bothers me a lot, because it will mean the loss of jobs.
Tengo que importar un cargamento de zapatos desde China, y no me importa lo que me cobren en la aduana.
I have to import a shoe shippment from China, and I don't care about the importation fees.
Friends are more important than money.
Los amigos son más importantes que el dinero.
First try: No me importa si quedas o vas. Correction: No me importa si te quedas o te vas.
It doesn't matter to me if you stay or go.
Los mas importante en la vida es la familia.
The most important thing in life is family.
I think that I drank a lot of in the party last night but I matter....I have a fantastic !!!
Creo que bebí mucho en la fiesta de anoche pero no me importa... lo pasé genial !!!
No es importante cuantos tiempos se cae, lo que importa es que se pone de pie otra vez.
It's not important how many times you fall, what matters is that you stand back up.
Algunas personas creen que gramática no es importa pero creo que es muy importante si quieres el respeto de otra personas.
Some people believe that grammar is not important, but I think it is very important if you want the respect of other people.
They do not mind talking about anything.
No les importa hablar de cualquier cosa.
I'd just tried to express this to a young Mexican racer friend I've been working with who was injured last weekend. I´m lucky to have a few Facebook friends who don´t speak tons of English, which, to my benefit, forces me to try more than I really can, in Spanish. (please excuse any mistakes, as I still mostly find myself punching above my grammatical/experential weight when trying to do actual communication in Spanish. For instance, if any portion should employ subjunctive, I wouldn't know that yet, so it will be at least partially wrong)
No importa si compites en la próxima ronda. Importa es, que vuelves salud, incluso si tienes que volver más tarde.
It doesn´t matter if you dont´make (compete in) the next round. It is important that you come back healed, even if you have to come back later.
