Crossword: Create English compound words and translate them to Spanish
In English, words, particularly adjectives and nouns, are combined into compound structures in a variety of ways. One common pattern is to join two words such as fire and fly, into one word; firefly.
There are three forms of compound words. This challenge focus's on the the closed form, in which the words are melded together, firefly.
There is only one sure way to know how to spell compounds in English: use an authoritative dictionary.
Guidelines:
-- Use only the words in the the Word Bank. Several of the words are used more than once.
--Create 21 English compound words, (you may find more than I did) and then translate the compound word into Spanish.
-- Indicate where the Spanish word will be used in the crossword puzzle.
-- One clue per member please, though you may participate every 2 hours.
-- Feel free to use sentences and/or pictures.
-- Be aware that the crossword puzzle does contain phrases, leave a space between words.
-- Note: You do not have to do the clues in any particular sequence! Have fun!
Word Bank
| ache | air | play |
| air | ear | port |
| any | fire | rings |
| arm | ground | room |
| back | more | some |
| barrow | nut | thing |
| bed | pack | wheel |
| camp | place | where |
| Created English Compound Word | Spanish Translation | Created English Compound Word | Spanish Translation | Created English Compound Word | Spanish Translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. backpack | la mochila | 8. earrings | el pendiente | 15. firearm | el arma de fuego |
| 2. backache | dolor de espalda | 9. bedroom | la habitación | 16. anyplace | dondequiera |
| 3. airport | el aeropuerto | 10. something | alguna cosa | 17. campfire | hoguera de campamento |
| 4. groundnut | el cacahuete | 11. campground | campamento | 18. something | a cualquier parte |
| 5. armchair | el sillón | 12. playroom | cuarto de juego | 19. playground | patio de recreo |
| 6. fireplace | la chimenea | 13. anything | cualquier cosa | 20. background | fondo |
| 7. wheelbarrow | la carretilla | 14. earache | el dolor de oído | 21. wheelchair | silla de ruegas |
| Across | Down | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. school children use this | 2. when wet, it's hard to start | |
| 7. for the disabled | 3. a build-up of wax can cause this | |
| 8. this place gets real busy during the holidays | 4. pistol, rifle, shotgun, etc. | |
| 9. tents are found here | 5. indeterminate or unspecified | |
| 10. at, in, or to any place or point | 6. refers to a thing, no matter what | |
| 11. hard labor, such as breaking stones can cause this | 9. children like this in their home | |
| 12. used informally for anywhere | 15. it is a crop, it can be made into an oil | |
| 13. it has armrests | 16. this is found behind something | |
| 14. some men wear only one of these | ||
| 17. it's used to move to move things | ||
| 18. A separate place for sleeping | ||
| 19. children like this in a community park | ||
| 20. sitting near this helps a person to stay warm |
21 Answers
3 down - earache - dolor de oídos
9 down: play + room: CUARTO DE JUEGO?
20. sitting near this helps a person to stay warm
Fireplace --- la chimenea
Cuando era joven miraba cada fin de semana los cuentos del "narrador de cuentos" mientras se sentó enfrente de su chimenea.
When I was young I watched every weekend the stories of the storyteller while he sat in front of his fireplace.
-- 8. this place gets real busy during the holidays
airport ---- el aeropuerto
El día después de los días navideñas
17 across
wheelbarrow : carretilla
13 across - sillón - armchair
arm + chair = armchair
6. down, cualquier cosa
any + thing = anything
Hear anything?
¿Oye cualquier cosa?
Upon finding out that this is a personal image, I have removed the image.
16 down - el fondo - background (back + ground = background)
4 down Firearm "el arma de fuego"
19. across - patio de recreo
play + ground = playground
12 across, "used informally for anywhere", dondequiera
any + place = anyplace
Estaba perdida en el bosque y en dondequiera que se veía había hubo oscuridad fría y húmeda y árboles grandes y viejos.
She was lost in the woods and anyplace she looked there was dank darkness and big old trees.
Note: The adverb "anyplace" is a synonym for anywhere:
“She won’t let me go anyplace without her.”
-- 2. down - when wet, it's hard to start
hoguera de campamento - campfire
9 across - campground - campamento
camp + ground = campground
15 down, cacahuete
ground + nut = groundnut
El maní o cacahuete, es una especie de la familia de las leguminosas. El cacahuete era probablemente domesticado por primera vez y cultivado en los valles del Paraguay.
The peanut, or groundnut, is a species in the legume family. The groundnut was probably first domesticated and cultivated in the valleys of Paraguay.
5. down alguna cosa
some + thing = something
Por favor, ¡me consigo alguna cosa de comer!
Please, get me something to eat!
