La Palabra Del Dia: "andar"
andar ( ahn-dahr' )
verb ( to walk; to function, to work; to travel )
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Examples:
1: Los bailarines anduvieron por la calle, listos para el festejo.
The dancers walked through the street, ready for the celebration.
2: No anda la impresora; hay que llamar al técnico.
The printer doesn't work; we need to call the technician.
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Esto ya es la universidad, no me puedo andar con tonterías aquí.
This is college now; I can't get involved in silly stuff here.
A more natural translation would probably be "This is college; I can't afford to mess around here", but I wanted the English sentence to mirror the Spanish one.
En el invierno él anda en raquetas de nieve al trabajo.
In the winter he takes his snow shoes to work.
Ayer mi amiga colombiana y yo andábamos por la galería del arte mirando los cuadros y a veces nos paramos delante de uno para describirlo en español e inglés.
Yesterday my Colombian friend and I walked around the art gallery looking at paintings and sometimes we stopped in front of one to describe it in Spanish and English.
Este caballo no está andando en la realidad , pero en la imaginación del niño , si
This horse is not walking in the reality, but in the imagination of the child he does.
Andar en patineta es muy divertido. Me encanta hacerlo.
Skateboarding is fun. I love to do it.
Cuando la computadora no anda, a veces es mejor contratar a un experto.
When the computer doesn´t work, sometimes it is better to call an expert.
A mi esposa y yo a veces nos gusta andar por algunas de las calles populares en nuestra ciudad, pero estacionar el coche ha llegado a ser tan difícil en algunas partes que hoy en día es algo que rara vez hacemos.
Sometimes my wife and I like to walk around some of the trendy streets of our city, but parking the car has become so difficult in some areas that nowadays it is something we rarely do.
Un día espero que ser un peregrino andando en por el camino de Santiago.
One day I hope to be a pilgrim walking the Way of St. James.
Dígame alguien de España, hay una palabra "romero" ¿se usa para el sentido de peregrino religioso hoy?
En el sitio donde vivo hay una velada cada agosto en la que la Virgen de la Oliva ( Nuestra Señora de la Oliva Coronada) la patrona de Vejer de la Frontera está llevada en procesión de hombros a la iglesia de Vejer, un caminata de unas dos horas andando a pie. Este año caminé con la procesión, y creo que estabamos más que 1000 personas caminado con la Virgen.
In the place where I live there is an evening every August when the Patron Saint of Vejer, the Virgin of La Oliva ( Our Crowned Lady of the Olives?) is carried on the shoulders of some men to the church in Vejer de la Frontera, a walk of some two hours. This year I walked with the procession and I think that there were more than a thousand persons walking along with the Virgin.
El niño ha empezado a andar. / The baby’s started to walk.
Es muy andarín. / He’s really fond of walking.
Vine andando. / I walked here / I came here on foot.
Mi reloj no anda. Necesito comprar una batería para eso.
My watch has stopped. I need to buy a battery for that.
A veces mi teléfono no anda y he encontrado que la mejor cosa hacer es sacar la batería y entonces reemplazarla. Hasta ahora esto ha funcionada bien.
Sometimes my telephone doesn't work and I have found that the best thing to do is to take out the battery and then replace it. So far this has worked well.
