three of your hardest

Question

tres de tus más difíciles ... palabras

mío

soler - to usually do

solemos comer fuera los viernes (we usually eat out on Fridays)

abono - fertilizer

plantas necesitan abono (plants need fertilizer)

cifrar - to encrypt

I always encrypt my email (Siempre me cifro mi correo electrónico)

mías (to go with palabrAS) ;) - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 28, 2013

And cifrar has an interesting meaning when used with esperanzas - eg. Cifró su esperanza en el nuevo gobierno. He pinned his hopes on the new government. - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 28, 2013

Answer 1

Las palabras más dificiles para mí son:

Quedar: este verbo tiene muchisimos significados varios.

y los dos otras son una para:

Seguir y Conseguir: no puedo completamente diferenciar entre los

Quedar ... Sí the most difficult ... ¡sigue, no te pares! continue don't stop ... or adelante ... used to say pase (incorrect) - readytodictate, Jun 27, 2013

Haha, seguir/conseguir are on my list too, immediately after the top three :) - Manity, Jun 27, 2013

Answer 2

poder - power or can

poderoso - powerful puedo hacerlo - I can do it

pedir - ask for

pido el médico por la receta - I asked the doctor for the prescription

deber - should

debo hacerlo - I should do it stronger is tengo que hacerlo - I must do it

Good Three Manity

pedí = I asked ;) and don't forget that pedir includes the 'for' - it means 'to ask for' so you won't need por after it. Want to have another go? - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 28, 2013

I agree that deber is a tricky one because 'should' is often translated as 'debería' and 'must' is often translated using 'debe', 'debo' etc using the present tense. - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 28, 2013

Just in case I forget to come back .... Le pedi una receta al medico - Kiwi-Girl, Jun 28, 2013

Answer 3

Las palabras más difíciles para mí son poder, pedir y deber. I can never remember which is which and how to conjugate them (poder and pedir specifically). The only two expressions I've got firmly embedded in my head so far are repeated every ~3 minutes in soap operas: "No puedo" and "No puede ser."

good ones - readytodictate, Jun 27, 2013