La Palabra Del Dia: "raro"
raro ( rah'-roh )
adjective ( strange; rare; scarce )
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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. ¡Qué raro¡ Hay luces prendidas en esa casa abandonada cerca de las vías de tren.
How strange! There are lights on in that abandoned house by the train tracks.
2. La paleontóloga desenterró un fósil de una especie de ballena rara.
The paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a rare species of whale.
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Creo que tienes los ojos más bonitos! (La verdad es una materia rara.)
I think you have the most beautiful eyes! (The truth is a rare commodity.)
El deporte nacional de Afganistán es bien raro, se llama buzkashi. Para jugar necesitamos a dos equipos de 10 jinetes, como en el polo, pero este es un deporte que puede hacer temer a los más aguerridos de los gauchos porque, para empezar, la pelota es una cabra o una oveja descabezada y hay que marcar un gol arrastrando el cuerpo del animal a la portería del equipo opuesto. El deporte no tiene tiempo delimitado, un juego puede durar días, justo como el cricket. Los referees deben ir armados. ¡Al juego, amigos!
The National Sport of Afghanistan is very strange . It is called Buzkashi. In order to play we need two teams of 10 riders, rather like in Polo, but this is a sport that might make even the most hardened gauchos tremble, because, just to start with the ball is a goat or a ewe with it's head chopped off and you have to score a goal by dragging the body of the animal past the goal-posts of the opposing team. The game is played without time-limits, a match can take days, just like in cricket. The referees should carry arms. Let's play, my friends!
Me encantan las viñetas con un sentido de humor raro.(Especialmente con objetos inanimados.)
I love cartoons with a weird sense of humor. (Especially with inanimate objects.)
Qué raro que no vea a su madre desde hace en siete años.
It's odd that she hasn't seen her mother in 7 years.
Sólo los signos de neón rojos realmente tienen el raro gas neón adentro. Otros colores no.
Only the red neon signs have the rare gas neon in them. Other colors no.
Gatito: Atrapé el ratón, pero él me parece un poco raro; temo que quedaré hambriento.
Kitten: I caught the mouse, but he seems a little rare to me; I am afraid that I will remain hungry.
En inglés hay una expresión; Raro como dientes de una gallina. Aquí tienen una guapa.
In English there is an expression: Rare as hen's teeth. Here's a pretty chickie.
There is no political statement in my project. Maybe a fashion statement, but that is all. 
Las cosas se ponían muy raro cuando el jefe de la junta de jefes del Estado Mayor planteó el tendencia de la moda de camuflaje en medio de la audiencia del Comité de Servicios Armados del Senado.
Things got really weird when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff brought up the camouflage fashion trend in the middle of the Senate Armed Services committee hearing.
Rare will be the day in wich i don't make a mistake speaking English.
Raro sera el día en el que no cometa un error hablando inglés
Hoy leí un artículo de opinión escrito por alguien de Zimbabue, quien encuentra muy rara la polémica sobre el dentista que mató un león muy rara y me parece quien es alguien que cree que la sensibilidad a la situación de los animales salvajes pertenece sólo a los que no están en peligro debido a esos animales.
Today I read an opinion piece written by someone from Zimbabwe, who finds the controversy about the dentist who killed a lion very strange, and it seems to me who is someone who thinks that sensitivity to the plight of wild animals belongs only to those who are not in danger due to those animals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html?_r=0
At school he was always the odd man out.
En el colegio siempre era el raro.
¡Qué raro que la lluvia sea tán copiosa durante el verano! Estoy sorprendida.
It's strange that rain is so abundant during the summer! I am surprised.
I don't know in which part of the film "The Battle of the Five Armies" I heard the word "odd".
No sé en que parte de la película "La Batalla de los Cinco Ejércitos" escuché la palabra "raro".
Creo que es muy raro que la gente quiera mejor servicios pero también quiere menos impuestos. ¿No entiende que los dos son conectados?
I think it is very strange that people want better services but also want to pay less tax. Don't they understand the two are connected?
Es raro que los infantes de La Marina se retiren (o vuelvan para atrás). ¡No! ¡Nunca se retiran.!
It is rare that Marines retreat. No! Marines never retreat!
