Need help with translating simple Sentence and finding a mistake

Question

Hola Everyone

I want to Know the Perfect Translation for This sentence

Yo Estoy a Dormir

2nd Question: i want to know if there is a Grammar or spelling mistake in this paragraph

" Soy fuerte porque fui débil. Estoy en guardia porque fui traicionado. Me río porque estuve triste y vivo al día porque mañana no es seguro. "

Typo in your English sentence, "I" Also, "grammar" doesn't need to be capitalized. You need a period after "paragraph." In the first English sentence after, "This sentence" use a colon. :) - rac1, Sep 23, 2013

Welcome to the forum. - rac1, Sep 23, 2013

Answer 1

Hi, youssif:

"Yo Estoy a Dormir"

doesn't make sense to me.

As a Spanish native speaker, I would use:

Voy a dormir

Or

Estoy por dormir

We usually ommit the personal pronoun "yo".

I didn't find any mistakes in the second sentence.

Answer 2

That is right:

The preposition a is used to

connect one verb to an infinitive (not translated directly)

Vamos a bailar. (We are going to dance.) Empecé a leer. (I began to read.)

In this example connects a verb ("ir") to an infinitive ("dormir")

Voy a dormir

The problem is with the verb "estar", because this verb doesn't express an action but a state. You could say:

Está dormido.

(But you couldn't say: "Estoy dormido", because people doesn't talk while they are sleeping).

Answer 3

Thanks for the Reply actually i found it in the site Here in this topic http://www.spanishdict.com/topics/show/9

for the preposition a:

This is a very common preposition that can mean to, at, by, or for depending on the manner it is used. It can be used to: connect one verb to an infinitive (not translated directly) Empecé a leer. (I began to read.)