La Palabra Del Dia: "matar"
matar ( mah-tahr' )
verb ( to kill )
There are many native English speakers here, most of us can offer great suggestions to the English sentences. I will do my best to go through them all, too. Use today's Word of the Day in your own Spanish sentence (and include the English translation as well). Try to use the word in a completely new way and vote on the sentences you like best. The winner will be chosen based upon the correct use of the word as well as the number of votes.
Guidelines:
Write sentences at least 5 words long, but don't write a paragraph either. Write your Spanish sentence, but include the English translation as well. Make the corrections suggested by other users and moderators in the comments section (try not to use personal pronouns unless absolutely necessary). Use your own words! (Don't use a translator, copy from a book, use song lyrics, etc.) Please keep political, religious or personal statements to a minimum. This is a practice game.
Examples:
1. Con el verano vienen los mosquitos. Ya he matado cuatro.
With the summer come the mosquitos. I've already killed four.
2. El trabajo me está matando en estos días; necesito unas vacaciones.
Work is killing me these days; I need a vacation.
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15 Answers
No entiendo cómo algunas personas puedan matar los animales inocentes.
I do not understand how some people can kill innocent animals.
It's part of the nature of cats to catch and kill mice.
Agarrar y matar a ratones es parte de la naturaleza de los gatos.
No me gustan la películas de suspenso porque allí los personajes siempre sw matan el uno al otro.
I do not like the thrillers because there the personages always kill one another.
[Edited]
El objectivo del acto final en la corrida de toros es matar el toro, después de estar debilitado por agotamiento y pérdida de sangre. La corrida de toros es polémico en España y otros países de hispanohablantes: mientras alguna gentes dice es un parte de la herencia cultural de ellos cual ha existido por siglos, otras sienten es un deporte cruel cual origina el toro mucho sufrimiento.
The objective in the final act of bullfighting is to kill to bull, after it has been weakened by exhaustion and blood loss. Bullfighing is controversial in Spain and other spanish-speaking countries: while some people say it is a part of their cultural heritage which has existed for centuries, others feel it is a cruel sport which causes the bull a great deal of suffering.
Hunters killed the tens of thousands of American Buffalo that once roamed it's western plains, almost bringing the species to extinction.
Los cazadores mataron a decenas de miles de búfalo americano que una vez que recorrían su planicies del oeste, casi a la especie a la extinción.
Me mata tener que levantarme a estas horas.
It’s killing me having to get up at this ungodly hour.
Demasiada polución ambiental está matando nuestro planeta
Too much environmental pollution is killing our planet
Es interesante que la mayoria de personas piense que es aceptable matar algunos tipos de animales, por ejemplo ovejas, peces, hormigas o arañas, pero no otros como perros, jirafas o loros. Todo depende en el punto de vista. En todo caso el animal quiere vivir.
It is interesting that most people think it is all right to kill some kinds of animals, for example sheep, fish, ants or spiders, but not others like dogs, giraffes or parrots. It all depends on one's point of view. In every case the animal wants to live.
She had the kind of looks that some women "would kill" to have, but she was very unhappy.
Ella tenía el tipo de miradas que algunas mujeres 'mataría' para tener, pero ella estaba muy descontenta.
Araña es un insecto que mataria cada vez si la encontraria en mi casa.
Spider is one insect that I would kill every time if I would find it in my house.
It sickens me that this lovely young giraffe was killed because zoo officials deemed him "not genetically important enough" to justify keeping him.
Me da asco que esta hermosa jirafa joven fue mató porque los funcionarios del zoológico no lo consideraron como "genéticamente lo suficientemente importante" como para justificar mantenerlo.
(Please correct my Spanish.)
Hungarian countess Erzsebet Bathory killed more than one hundred girls, she believed she would retain her youthful look by using their blood.
La condesa húngara Erzsebet Bathory mató más de cien muchachas, ella creía que iba a retener su aparencia juvenil usando de su sangre.
As the late pacifist priest (and personal friend), Father Dick Wempe, used to say "The fifth commandment: "Thou shalt (you shall) not kill.' is very clear."
Como solía decir el difunto sacerdote pacífico (y amigo hermano), Padre Dick Wempe: "El quinto mandamiento: "No matarás" es muy claro."
Si han visto la serie de tele que se llama "Los Muertos que Caminan", entonces saben que ese programa muestra muchas matanzas donde uno se mata al otro, sean muertos o vivos. If you have seen the tv series that's called "The Walking Dead", then you know that that program shows a lot of killings where they kill each other whether they be dead or alive.
Este hombre aprendió cómo matar para defender su territorio.
This man learned how to kill to protect his terrtory.
