La Palabra del Día: "el pariente"
el pariente (pah-ree-ehn'-teh)
noun ( relative )
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1. Siempre comparto las Navidades con mis parientes más cercanos.
I always spend Christmas with my closest relatives.
2. Ella es pariente política del actor de la telenovela.
She is the soap opera actor's in-law.
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En mis relaciones con mis parientes, se podría decir que todo es relativo.
In my relations with my family members, you could say everything is relative.
It is good to have a big family with lots of relatives and also good friends who you can rely on, who always care for one another and let you know how important you are. By contrast, some people live alone but they usualy have good friends. I hope that every person has at least a couple of great friend.
Es bueno tener una famila grande con muchos parientes y también buenos amigos en quienes poder confiar, que siempre cuidan los unos de los otros y te dejan saber cuán importante eres. Por el contrario, algunas personas viven solas pero usualmente tienen buenos amigos. Espero que cada persona tenga al menos un par de buenos amigos.
A veces mis parientes me dan tanta vergüenza, pero, a pesar de eso, los quiero.
Sometimes my relatives embarrass me a lot, but I love them anyway.
Soy india cherokee e Inglés. Mis parientes no eran renacuajos.
I'm Cherokee Indian and English. My relatives were never tadpoles.
Podemos tener diferencias, pero tenemos muchas más similitudes que diferencias. Somos parientes, porque todos nosotros provenimos del mismo árbol, el Árbol de la Esperanza.
We may have differences, but we have many more similarities than differences. We are relatives because we all stem from the same tree, the Tree of Hope.
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Coma y beba con sus parientes; haga el negocio con extraños.
Mis parientes tienen la sangre de muchas nacionalidades.
My relatives have the blood of many nationalities.
Peoples and families are not evil. Only individuals are evil. You can't punish his relatives for his sins./ Los pueblos y las familias no son malos. Sólo los individuos son malos. No podéis castigar a sus parientes por sus pecados.
Cain and Abel / Caín y Abel / Qáyin y Hével
I wish, I didn't see little orphans left without relatives any more. Me gustaria no ver poco huérfanos dejados sin parientes alguna más.
It only takes one bad relative to spoil an entire family tree.
Toma solo un pariente malo para arruinar un árbol genealógico entero.
Me gustaría saber cómo fue la vida para mis parientes de antaño.
I would like to know, how life was for my family members of yesteryear.
Tengo una familia muy grande y algunos de mis parientes son desconocidos para mi. En una ocasión tuve una cita con una chica que acababa de conocer en la ciudad de donde es originario mi padre, la invité a una de esas fiestas familiares y ahí en esa fiesta mi padre me presentó a un "tío nuevo" era uno de sus primos en segundo grado que resultó ser el padre de la chica. Fue my vergonzoso.
I have a big family and some of my relatives are completely unknown to me. Once I had a date with a girl that I just met in my father's hometown. I invited her to a family party. At the party, my father introduced me to a "new uncle" one of his second cousins and he was my date's father. It was embarrassing.
Vi muchos de mis parientes la semana pasada porque fui al funeral de mi tía. [Estaba triste pero tiene noventa y dos años y tenía una vida feliz.]
Second sentence corrected by caefuego: Fue algo triste, pero ella tenía 92 años y tuvo una vida feliz
I saw many of my relatives last week because I went to the funeral of my aunt. It was sad but she was ninety-two and she had a happy life.
My deceased relatives are my soul.
Mis parientes fallecidos son mi alma.
Acabo de regresar de una reunión con mis parientes en Keystone, Colorado, donde fuimos a la división continental.
I have just returned from a reunion with my relatives in Keystone, Colorado where we went to the Continental Divide.
