"Muriendo," es correcto? Y lo demas?

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Esta mañana una niña y yo encontramos un lagarto. Lo seguiente es nuestro intercambio...

Yo: Wow! Que tipo de largarto es eso, pienses tu?

Ella: Un lagarto muriendo. Lo ví ayer, tambien, el gato estaba jugando con él.

Yo: ¿Ayer? Cómo duro, verdadero, ¡desea a vivir!

Ella: Yo lleví adentro el gato, pero creo que lo encontré otra vez. No puedo creerlo.

Normalmente se escribe "guau" en vez de "wow". - Noetol, Jul 29, 2012

Bienvenida al foro. - annierats, Jul 29, 2012

Answer 1

My best guess:

Esta mañana una niña y yo encontramos un lagarto. Lo siguiente (spelling error) es nuestro intercambio...

Yo: ¡Guau! (following Neotol's advice) ¿Qué tipo de lagarto piensas que es(no need for subjunctive "pienses")?

Ella: Un lagarto moribundo (I have never seen a gerund used by a native speaker as an adjective, although I suppose I could be wrong about this.). Lo vi (no accent) ayer, también (here you do need an accent), el gato estaba jugando con él.

Yo: ¿Ayer? ¡Qué duro! (This means "how difficult" or "how tough". You use "qué" with such expressions in Spanish, instead of "cómo". I'm not sure if "difficult/tough" was the word you were looking for here, since I don't have a translation to show me your intent) ¡verdaderamente quiere vivir! (This means "he really wants to live." This is my best guess at what you may have meant to say...)

Ella: Yo llevé (Conjugation of "llevar") adentro al gato (She did something TO the cat or A + EL gato), pero creo que lo encontró (If I am not mistaken, the cat found the lizard, right? So you need the third-person form of the preterit of "encontrar") otra vez. No puedo creerlo.

Overall, good job! In the future, if you want things corrected, it is a million times easier to do that if you include a translation of what you meant to say, so we can correct it based on that.

Looks good to me. - annierats, Jul 29, 2012

Answer 2

Hey Jamarie. Welcome to SpanishDict.com

Yo: Wow! Que tipo de largarto es eso, pienses tu? **(Wow! ¿Qué tipo de lagarto es? ¿Qué piensas tú?)****( Wow! What type of lizard is it? What do you think?)

Ella: Un lagarto muriendo. ( Un lagarto que está muriendo…a lizard that is dying)

Ella: Yo lleví adentro el gato **(Llevé el gato adentro…pero, creo que lo encontrará de nuevo….****I took the cat inside…but, I believe that he will find it again.) pero creo que lo encontré otra vez. No puedo creerlo.

Pumpkin did such a great job. You need to adhere to every point she made. Good luck?

Answer 3

"Lo ví ayer, tambien, el gato estaba jugando con él."

Should this not be in the preterite?

No, it's something that was happening as a continuous action in the past when the preterit action interrupted. - PumpkinCalabaza, Jul 29, 2012

I see, thanks. - TheSilentHero, Jul 29, 2012

Answer 4

en los últimos o moribundo.. As Pumpkin says: It's a help if you include your translation in both languages. I think Pumkin has made a very good answer.

I can't see a need for the subjunctive either, piensas, should be fine. You don't need the personal pronouns, they are already built into the verbs.

Answer 5

P.S. The translator says Moribundo but I just don't like it! It doesn't flow...