La Palabra Del Dia: "cumplir"
cumplir ( koom-pleer' )
verb ( to fulfill; to achieve; to carry out )
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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: Un buen mayordomo cumple con sus deberes sin importar las circunstancias.
A good Butler fulfills his duties regardless of the circumstances.
2: Estela cumplió su sueño de escalar el monte Everest.
Estela achieved her dream of climbing Mount Everest.
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Este diciembre cumplo cincuenta y ocho años. Francamente, nunca me imaginaba imaginé ser tan viejo, ¡pero está bien!
This December I turn 58. Honestly, I never imagined being this old, but it´s okay!
No puedes cumplir sus tus sueños si no crees en ti mismo.
You can't fulfill your dreams if you don't believe in yourself.
Acudió a la boda por cumplir con su hermano.
She went to the wedding out of a sense of duty to her brother.
Me parece que a veces no es tan bueno cuando tus deseos se cumplen.
It seems to me that sometimes it's not so good when your desires are fulfilled.
Este año, Natalia cumplió su sueño de convertirse en una enfermera.
Natalia achieved her dream of becoming a nurse this year.
En este mes de Octubre se cumple tres años desde que he comenzado a aprender Español. Todavía me alegra aprender y cada día escucho algo de esta lengua. Puedo decir algo pero entiendo mucho mas. Escucho canciones, telenovelas , lecciones. Creo que lo todo me ayuda aprender.
This month, October will be full three years since I have begun to learn Spanish. Still makes me happy to learn and every day I listen to something of this language. I can say something but I understand much more. I listen to songs, soap operas, lessons. I believe that all of it helps me to learn.
No hay muchas personas como Sadhu Sundar Singh quien llamó la atención de mucha gente por su vida espiritualmente despendida pero cumplió su vida con un fin desconocido como un desaparecido.
There aren’t many persons like Sadhu Sundar Singh who drew a lot of attention from people by his spiritually detached life but who fulfilled his life with an unknown end as a missing person.
El cerdito menor abrió la boca, indignado- í Pero hoy cumplo tres añitos! Y en nuestra familia nadie ha sido condenado a la esclavitud, ni como esclavo blanco ni como esclavo negro ni siquiera como esclavo mezclado. ¡Vámonos!
The youngerst piglet piped up, outraged: ''But it's my third birthday today! And in our family nobody has been condemned to be a slave, neither to be a white slave, nor a black slave or even a mixed up slave. Let's go!
Yo ya he cumplido con él. / I’ve done my bit as far as he’s concerned.
Hoy se cumple el quinto aniversario de nuestra boda. / Today is our fifth wedding anniversary.
Su mujer se queja de que ya no cumple. / His wife complains that he doesn’t perform his marital duties any more.
Quisiera obtener algunos minions (secuaces) para cumplir todo lo que quiero, pero todavía no he descubierto cómo uno logra esto.
I would like to obtain some minions to accomplish everything that I want, but I still have not discovered how one achieves this.
Mantener la paz en el matrimonio quiere decir cumplir con "tus deberes."
Keeping peace in marriage means complying with "your obligations."
El entrenador cumplió su promesa y se rapó cuando su equipo ganó el campeonato.
The coach fulfilled his promise and got his head shaved when his team won the championship.
El trabajo de la casa y el jardín no puede ser cumplido nunca. En cuanto limpio, el desorden reaparece, y en cuanto saco las malas yerbas, crecen de nuevo.
Housework and garden work can never be completed. As soon as I clean, the mess reappears, and as soon as I weed the garden, more weeds grow again.
