La Palabra Del Dia: "llorar"
llorar ( yoh-rahr' )
verb ( to cry )
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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. For the Spanish sentences, edit your posts according to the native Spanish speaker's suggestions. 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.
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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.
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Examples:
1. Hasta el sol de hoy, lloro cuando muere la mamá de Bambi.
To this very day, I cry when Bambi's mom dies.
2. Le digo a mi mamá que no tiene que recoger a mi hijo cada vez que llora, pero no me presta atención.
I tell my mom that she doesn't have to pick up my son every time he cries, but she doesn't pay attention. .
19 Answers
Sé que los bebés lloran, pero a veces no sé por qué.
I know that babies cry, but sometimes I don't know why.
Prefiero reír con los pecadores que llorar con los santos.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
Era una niña cuando vi esta película , pero todavia me acuerdo que estaba llorando de risa.
I was a child when I had seen this film, but even now I remember that I was crying with laughter.
Hoy estoy en Ávila. es muy antigua e interesante. Parece que hay una festival esta noche. Alguien me dijo que es un festival religioso y otra persona me dijo que es un festival de la cerveza. ¡Quizás sean los dos! En todo caso, nadie está llorando.
Today I am in Avila. It is very ancient and interesting. It seems there is a festival tonight. Someone told me it is a religious festival and another person told me it is a beer festival. Maybe it is both. Anyway,nobody is crying.
Mi hija te me llama por teléfono cuando mi nieta está llorando y no puedo oír nada excepto el grito.
Thanks Tiempo
My daughter calls by phone when my granddaughter is crying and I can't hear anything except screaming.
A veces llorar sale de la nada.
Sometimes crying comes out of nowhere.
My original three sentences
Al llorar por casi tres horas, finalmente dormirse.
Haber llorado por casi tres horas, finalmente dormirse.
Habiendo llorado por casi tres horas, finalmente dormirse.
Five corrected sentences from Tiempo, the first two are the most common:
Después de haber llorado por casi tres horas, finalmente se durmió.
Después de llorar por casi tres horas, finalmente se durmió,
Finalmente se durmió, habiendo llorado por casi tres horas.
Despues de haber llorado por casi tres horas hizo que finalmente se durmiera.
Finalmente se fue a dormir habiendo llorado por casi tres horas.
A couple of alternates for the English.
After having cried for nearly three hours, finally, he fell asleep.
After crying for nearly three hours, finally he fell asleep.
Finally he slept, having cried for nearly three hours.
Finally he went to sleep having cried for nearly three hours.
An even more common way to say this in English would be:
He cried for almost 3 hours before going to sleep.
(I avoided this easy way of saying it in English because I wanted to learn the more complex ways of saying something like this in Spanish.)
Spanish for the simplified English sentence
Lloró casi tres horas antes de se durmiódormirse.
Which of the three sentences in Spanish would be the most common?
¿Cuál de las tres oraciones en español sería la más común?
Algunas persones lloran en películas tristes, pero para mí, no. Ésa es mi historia, y me quedo con ello.
Some people cry at sad movies, but I do not. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
No son solamente las mujeres que lloran cuando han sufrido una gran pérdida.
It's not just the women who cry when they have suffered a great loss.
Cuando el hombre rico murió, su viuda lloró lágrimas de cocodrilo y luego encontró a otro amante guapo.
When the rich man died, his widow wept crocodile tears, and then found another handsome lover.
Es cierto... a veces mirar a Messi me hace llorar con de alegría.
It´s true... sometimes watching Messi makes me cry with joy.
I will not cry when do you go, I promise you...
No lloraré cuando te vayas te lo prometo...
Siempre anda llorando de que no tiene dinero.
He’s always moaning about having no money.
Estaba pelando cebollas y me lloraban los ojos.
I was peeling onions and my eyes started watering.
El ladron salió corriendo con el televisor de la víctima quién llamó a la policia llorando a lágrima viva y no pudo explicar como pasó que el ladron entró en la casa como su mejor amigo pero salió como su peor enemigo.
The crook ran out of the house with the victim's television . She rang the police in floods of tears, but she was crying so much that she couldn't explain how the burglar had entered her house as her best friend but left as her worst enemy.
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Antes de trasladarse a Peru, en el aeropuerto, cuando se despidió de sus amigos, Susana lloró a lágrima viva.
Before moving to Peru, at the airport, when she said goodbye to her friends, Susana cried her heart out.
¿Por qué lloras? ¡No hay nada de llanto en el béisbol!
Why are you crying? There is no crying in baseball!
(One of my favorite lines from a movie.)
