La palabra del día: "exagerar"
exagerar ( ex-ah'-heh-rahr )
verb ( to exaggerate )
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Examples:
1. No exageres, que el perro que te mordió no fue tan grande.
Don't exaggerate; the dog that bit you wasn't that big.
2. Lo despidieron porque había exagerado sus logros académicos en su curriculum.
They fired him because he had exaggerated his academic achievements on his résumé.
13 Answers
I think this cat is overdoing it.
Creo que este gato está exagerando.
Cuando estaba en la universidad yo era muy, muy popular. No exagero. Pero solo en la semana de examenes.
When I was in college, I was very, very popular. I am not exaggerating. But, I was popular only when people needed me to help them prepare for taking the tests.
Please make any corrections.
Children often exaggerate the attributes of their fathers.
Los niños a menudo exageran los atributos de sus padres.
Todos los pescadores son mentirosos, y les encanta exagerar.
All fishermen are liars, and they love to exaggerate.
No quiero exagerar,pero ¡ Spanishdict ! permanace el mejor sitio web.Para mi. I don't want to exaggerate but ¡Spanishdict! remains the best website.For me.
Debemos ser Seamos honestos. Exageramos cada todos los días, no importa que sea si es algo pequeño (vi, como, quince aves) o algo grande (mi hermano conoce a un actor famoso). Entonces, la proxima vez que te dé cuenta que tu amigo te está exagerando, no se ponges enojado te enojes.
Let's be real. We exaggerate all the time. It doesn't matter if it's something small (I saw, like, 15 birds) or something big (my brother knows someone famous). So the next time you realize that your friend exaggerated something, don't get mad.
There are two things I'm not sure about here. The first is the use of the filler word "like". I don't really know any good Spanish equivalents. The second is whether or not "la proxima vez que" should be followed by the subjunctive.
Cuando solía trabajar trebajaba en un laboratorio, tuve que describir exactamente mis observaciones sin exagerar.
When I used to work in a laboratory, I had to describe my observations exactly without exaggerating.
"Las noticias de mi muerto han sido grandemente exageradas" fue un dicho del autor Mark Twain.
"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" was a saying of the author Mark Twain.
¿Los animales y los moderadores exageran o bromean? alrededor? Si es En el caso de este animal, o yo en mi caso como moderadora, ¡los dos ambos simplemente no tienen un tenemos sentido del humor cuando se trata de andar arrastrando arrastrar las cosas!
Do animals and Moderators exaggerate or kid around? Whether it is this animal, or me as a Moderator, we both just don't have a sense of humor when it comes to dragging things around!
Y si te lo perdiste, ¡este es el humor de Bandita!
OK, first with my many errors corrected but visible so others can maybe learn from my folly.
Los corredores
suelentienden a exagerar sus resultos - los ganadores comoasílos perdedores.
Cuando unoSi alguien gana, sellamaautonombrada el ganador, incluso sihaysolo hubo un corredor.
InclusoAhoracuandoque si hay solo dos corredores, el que llega enelsegundo lugar, nunca sedescribediscribiría a si mismo como el perdedor,tampocoo el que llegó en último lugar. Simplementedicedirá ¨llegó enelsegundo lugar¨
And then all cleaned up(ish), courtesy of Sylyon (Thanks)
Los corredores tienden a exagerar sus resultos - los ganadores como los perdedores.
Si alguien gana, se autonombrada el ganador, incluso si hubo solo un corredor.
Ahora que si hay solo dos corredores, el que llega en segundo lugar, nunca se discribiría a si mismo como el perdedor, o el que llegó en último lugar. Simplemente dirá ¨llegó en segundo lugar¨
Racers tend to exaggerate their results, the winners as well as the losers.
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If one wins, he calls himself the winner, even if there was only a single racer.
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Even if there are only two racers, the one who gets second never describes himself as the loser, or ending up in last place. He simplemente simply says, second position.
Los pescadores casi siempre exageran con sus capturas de peces en sus cuentos.
The fishermen almost always exaggerate about the fish they catch in their stories.
No exagero...bien casi nunca
I do not exaggerate... well almost never.
Si no exagerara, no causaría buena impresión.
If I didn´t exaggerate, I wouldn´t make a good impression.
