La Palabra Del Dia: "caja"
caja ( kah'-hah )
noun ( box; cash register, checkout; safe )
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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. Tenemos que llevar estas cajas de cereal a la caja para pagarlas.
We have to take these cereal boxes to the checkout to pay for them.
2. Siempre que llego al hotel pongo mi pasaporte en la caja de la habitación.
Whenever I get to the hotel I put my passport in the room's safe.
Notes:
When using "caja" to mean a safe for valuables, it's also common to refer to it as a "caja fuerte."
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Albuquerque es un lugar popular para los pilotos de globos de aire caliente, porque las moñtanas cercanas forman una "caja" de aire estable.
Albuquerque is a popular place for hot air balloon pilots, because the nearby mountains form a "box" of stable air.
For some reason or other cats can't resist boxes. They just love to hide and sleep in even the most narrow kind of box.
Por la razón que sea los gatos no pueden resistir a las cajas.A ellos les encanta esconderse y dormir incluso en el tipo de caja más estrecho.
You will be happier, if you don't open Pandora's box.
Usted será más feliz, si no abre la caja de Pandora.
¿Puedo tener una caja para llevar, por favor?
May I have a box to go, please?
I agree with Aristotle's theory of Spontaneous Generation. I believe that robbers materialize from full cash registers.
Estoy de acuerdo con La teoría de la generación espontánea de Aristóteles la teoría de la generación espontánea. Creo que los ladrones se materializan de cajas registradoras llenas.
Incluso un regalo magnifico será más lindo si está empaquetado en una caja elegante y decorada.
Even a magnificent gift will be prettier if it is packed in an elegant and decorated box.
Como es el primero de Octubre, según mi esposa hoy tengo que devolver poner todos los adornos de pavo real a en sus cajas, y saco los de búho y los de cuervo- en esencia hoy es el día del de cambio de las aves- pero no tengo que saco sacar todas las cajas que contienen adornos de Halloween hasta el fin de semana, porque hay demasiadas para tratar con ellas durante un día laborable.
As it is the first of October, according to my wife today I have to put all the peacock decorations back in their boxes, and take out the owl and crow ones.- in essence today is the day of the changing of the birds- but I don't have to take out all the boxes that contain Halloween decorations until the weekend, because there are too many to deal with during a weekday.
My father's hernia was diagnosed by a "doc in a box."
La hernia de mi padre fue diagnosticada por un doctor en una caja.
("Doc-in-a-box" is a ((possibly derogatory)) term for a doctor at a walk-in clinic. I don't know whether Spanish uses an equivalent term.)
Mi madre guarda sus joyas en una caja fuerte en un Banco.para guardarlas de los robos.
My mother keeps her jewelry in a bank locker/vault to save it from theft.
Pues tiene trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, puso la caja registradora en una caja de cartón y entonces la cerró en la caja en la oficina.
Since he/she has obsessive-compulsive disorder, he/she put the cash register in a cardboard box and then locked it in the safe in the office.
Me trajo una caja de bombones.
He brought me a box of chocolates.
Nos dieron una caja de champán de aguinaldo.
They gave us a crate of champagne for a Christmas present.
Me trajo una caja de bombones.
He brought me a box of chocolates.
Mi abuela me dejó su caja de joyas. La guardo en una caja fuerte. Un día voy a dejarla a mi nieta.
My grandmother left me her jewellery box. I keep it in a safe. One day I will leave it to my grand-daughter.
Dos gatos en la misma caja quizás se pelearán. Y entonces tenemos que aguantarlo. ¡Basta!
Two cats in the same box perhaps will fight. And then we have to put up with it. Enough!
Las cajas me intrigan. Siempre tengo curiosidad por que esta al dentro.
I find boxes intriguing. I always wonder what's inside them!
Tengo muchas cajas en mi sótano. Los uso cuando vendo cosas por eBay.
I have many boxes in my basement. I use them when I sell items on eBay.
Cuando compre cajas para mudarse de casa, lo mas grande casi no encaje en mi carro pequeño.
When I bought moving boxes three years ago, the largest box almost did not fin in my little car.
¡No abras la caja fuerte!
Don't open the safe!
