Word order challenge, "To become" (part 7) quedar(se) + adjective

Question

My sixth word order challenge was about “pasar a ser” and it is found here.

In English we say "to become" or "to get". In Spanish there are multiple ways of using these English verbs.

Our challenge, today, will use various conjugations of "quedarse or quedarse + adjective

Quedarse: To become
- often used with ciego/a (blind), sordo/a (deaf), vuido/a (widower/widow)

Quedar(se) + adjective is used to talk about changes, permanent ones for the worse and due to external circumstances. These can be suddenly or not sudden.

-- You are to put the words in order to create a valid sentence.

-- Write the answer as a complete Spanish sentence.

-- Translate that Spanish sentence and write the English sentence.

-- 1 – (él) Se / ciego. / quedó

-- 2 -- (ella) quedó / viuda. / Se

-- 3 -- (él) Se / sordo. / quedó

-- 4 -- cuando / quedé / joven. / calvo / era / Me / aún

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My special thanks to Kiwi for which these challenges are based.

For additional information here are some of her links.

Different ways to say 'to become' or 'to get' in Spanish.

G A M E: To Become, by Kiwi

Something weird happened just now to your votes: it was 1, I voted of course, so: should be 2. But it is 0 now ???????? - mcl020, Jul 7, 2012

I've been having problems with my votes. I sent in a feedback. I'll do it again per your letting me know you've seen some trouble! Muchas gracias, Mcl! - bandit51jd, Jul 8, 2012

Answer 1

1 – (él) Se / ciego. / quedó

Se quedó ciego.

He became blind.

2 -- (ella) quedó / viuda. / Se

Se quedó viuda.

She became a widow.

3 -- (él) Se / sordo. / quedó

Se quedó sordo.

He became deaf.

4 -- cuando / quedé / joven. / calvo / era / Me / aún

Cuando era joven aún me quedé calvo.

When I was young I still became bald. (Better: Although I was young, I become bald.)

I was just studying about adverb placement, and the adverb before the noun is for emphasis. I think that's what Kiwi was doing. - bandit51jd, Jul 7, 2012

Me quedé calvo cuando era aún joven. Though, I agree "cuando era aún joven", would be better in the front part of the sentence. Again, it's not wrong, it's just a different way of saying the same thing, right? - bandit51jd, Jul 7, 2012

Answer 2

1. Se quedó ciego.
   He became blind.

2. Se quedó viuja.
   She got old.

3. Se quedó sordo.
   He became deaf.

4. Me quedé calvo cuando era aún joven.
   I got bald when I was still young.

And THANx again, Bandita :-) - mcl020, Jul 7, 2012

Use care with viuja - old versus viuda - a widow! - bandit51jd, Jul 7, 2012

The English flows a little more smoothly with "I became (went) bald....", though "got" is the correct sense of "quedarse + adjective" - bandit51jd, Jul 7, 2012

I hope these are helping because the review will be a doozy! There are a few more to go before that review, though. Muchas gracias por tu participación. - bandit51jd, Jul 7, 2012