Would it be correct if I said "yo sueño" for "I sleep"?

Question

My sentence: El sábado yo sueño todo el día.

Does this translate to On Saturday I sleep all day?

You are implying that you sleep the whole day, and while you sleep, you are dreaming the whole time you are sleeping. - juanmelgar, Mar 25, 2014

But if you add "sueño despierto" then you are saying that you daydream the whole day. - juanmelgar, Mar 25, 2014

Answer 1

Dormir is the verb 'to sleep' so 'duermo todo el día'.

Soñar means 'to dream'.

A menudo me sueño de un Kiwi , pero entonces no estoy de dormir. - ray76, Mar 24, 2014

@ray76,, .. just a little correction Sir, soñar has a characterisitic preposition con and it should be sueño con kiwi ,, not sueño de kiwi :) - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

@kiwi-girl ,, in this sentence we would need to use the reflexive of dormir ,, so the sentence should be ..me dormí todo el día - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

or me duermo todo el día los sabados - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

@Ray you are such a ratbag :p. @ jimmy Thanx for your comment - I'm not sure that I agree though, dormir means to sleep and dormirse means to fall asleep. - Kiwi-Girl, Mar 24, 2014

Have a vote amiga :) - ian-hill, Mar 24, 2014

Hey Kiwi the great dag of the south ;=o you know I da 8) dag, you leave me ;( :=* - ray76, Mar 24, 2014

@Kiwi-Girl : thanks ma'am, I am not perfect yet so I may be wrong but I think there could be a regional difference as I have seen many natives speak this way for example : me dormi ocho horas anoche ,, and they use non reflexive when they are - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

when they are making some body else go to sleep (like a child),, estoy durmiendo a mi hijo .. some thing like that - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

but I may be wrong ,, I will look into this ,, thanks for bringing it up .. Regards .. Jimmy - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

Thanks, Kiwi! - rac1, Mar 24, 2014

Dormirse = to fall asleep / Dormir = to sleep - jphip, Mar 25, 2014

Answer 2

Sueño poco en mi dormir.

I dream little in my sleep.

Sueño con tener una casa de dos pisos.

I dream of owning a two-story house.

Sueña conmigo esta noche.

Dream about me tonight.

Duermo my poco en las noches.

I sleep too little during the night.

Para triunfar hay que soñar en grande.

To succeed you have to dream big.

No fue un sueño lo que tuve ayer. Fue una pesadilla.

It was not a dream what I had yesterday. It was a nightmare.

Fue una una noche de ensueño, como un sueño del que no quería despertar.

It was a dream night, like a dream I did not want to wake up from.

Duermo a mi hijo a las 9 p.m. I put my son to sleep at 9 p.m.

sueño poco durmiendo, creo. - annierats, Mar 24, 2014

Muchas gracias. :) - rac1, Mar 24, 2014

Sueño poco durmiendo suena bien pero suena mejor sueño poco en mi dormir o cuando duermo. - juanmelgar, Mar 25, 2014

Terrific mate thanks. - ray76, Mar 25, 2014

Answer 3

Go with Kiwi!

Here is a very good exaample from a journal:

Las personas que naturalmente duermen poco tienen una mutación genética que les permite funcionar con menos sueño.

:) - ian-hill, Mar 24, 2014

Go girl go ! - ray76, Mar 25, 2014

Answer 4

My friend, couple of things I would like to bring across here :

• First of all .. as Kiwi-Girl has very correctly advised above that Soñar means to dream .. not to sleep and that the correct verb indicating the act of sleeping is DORMIR..
• 2nd thing u need to bear in mind is that dormir has to aspects ,, reflexive and non reflexive ,, if the act of sleeping is being performed by the subject of the sentence (which in this case is YO) u would need to use the reflexive form DORMIRSE.
• 3rdly there seems to be some grammatical error in your sentence because the object of the implicit preposition "el sabado" doesn't seem to tally with the context quite properly ,, if you arr trying to say that you sleep the whole day on saturdays or every saturday so u need to either use it in the plural form or u can say cada sabado or todos los sabados .. please see my sentences below ,, then u should get a clear understanding on this :
• me duermo todo el día los sabados.
• me duermo todo el día cada sabado
• me dormí todo el día el sabado pasado (I slept the whole day last saturday)

If you want to say ,, I keep dreaming on saturday then u can use soñar as follows :

siempre sueño despierto los sabados porque es un día de repaso/descanso (I keep day dreaming on saturdays as it is a day off ,, or day to rest)

or u can aslo use "fin de semana" instead of día de descanso - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

Just one little point Jimmy, dormirse isn't reflexive but instead is pronominal and means 'to fall asleep' so that wouldn't be the right form to use for the example that pmilo gave. - Kiwi-Girl, Mar 24, 2014

Hey Jimmy mate ! A word of advice , do not mess with a Kiwi bird , they are mighty birds and can peck your little ,.....uugh toes off , and another thing she has a language teaching site par excellence . Ten cuidado amigo. - ray76, Mar 24, 2014

:) - ian-hill, Mar 24, 2014

@ray .. no sir ,, i am not messing with any one .. I am just a tiny little guy trying to learn .. I always appreciate being a part of the community and with due respect to all express my gratitude :) - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

but talking about Kiwi birds .. i really want to see one ,, an actual kiwi bird .. I have only seen them on the TV and the internet .. I think they can only be seen in Australia ,, How sad that is :( .. in my country we have beautiful pecocks - 00b055e0, Mar 24, 2014

Kiwis are very big birds, Jimmy. And I don't think they like ma''m anymore than I do. We're equal here, but some Kiwis are mightier than others. Never mess with Kiwi! - annierats, Mar 24, 2014

And Jimmy, I willnever, ever answer you again if you say ¨I´m alittle guy, trying to learn´. You´re big boy now. Awake Sir, awake! - annierats, Mar 24, 2014

You did nothing wrong, Jimmy. Thanks for your participation. - rac1, Mar 24, 2014

All good Jimmy, that's why we're a team here, we can all help each other :) Btw you will have to come to New Zealand if you want to see a kiwi. As much as we love our Australian cousins we can't let them claim the kiwi, after all they already have the - Kiwi-Girl, Mar 24, 2014

koala and the kangaroo ;) - Kiwi-Girl, Mar 24, 2014

"has two aspects". - ray76, Mar 25, 2014

Jimmbo ,Kiwi and i kid each other alot here , we are never serious , so do not get your knockers in a knit , it is all a big joke , Annierats is correct , you a big boy now so take it on the chin like one. - ray76, Mar 25, 2014

wow ,, we have none of these here (I mean kiwis and kangaroos) .. we do have lions and tigers in our jungles ,, and elephants ,, but no kangaroos ,, - 00b055e0, Mar 31, 2014

Answer 5

El sábado yo duermo todo el día. You don't really have to use "yo" if you don't want.

Right onGuategirl , thank you so much. - ray76, Mar 25, 2014