Translation help about when I was younger?
How do you say 'at the weekend, I always went ice skating.' And 'my brother used to play tennis but I never did because....' And finally 'I did more exercise when I was younger than I do now.' They're all talking about when I was younger so I think I need the imperfect? This is what I've come up with; 1 - El fin de semana iba siempre patinaje 2 - mi hermano jugaba el tenis pero .... Porque.. 3 - hice mad ejercicio cuando yo era pequeña ....
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How do you say 'at the weekend, I always went ice skating.' And 'my brother used to play tennis but I never did because....' And finally 'I did more exercise when I was younger than I do now.' They're all talking about when I was younger so I think I need the imperfect? This is what I've come up with; 1 - El fin de semana iba siempre patinaje 2 - mi hermano jugaba el tenis pero .... Porque.. 3 - hice mad ejercicio cuando yo era pequeña ....
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1 - El fin de semana iba siempre patinaje
I would say "Los fines de semana siempre patinaba sobre hielo". On the weekends I always used to ice skate. You can do the same iba a patinar sobre hielo type construction that we saw in your other if you want to emphasize the going.
2 - mi hermano jugaba el tenis pero .... Porque
What you have so far looks good. Very simple to fill in the dots if you change I never did to I didn't (yo no).
3 - hice mad ejercicio cuando yo era pequeña ....
I assume you meant más not mad. This really sounds imperfect to me- you used to do more exercise, so I would use hacía. I prefer cuando yo era joven, but that may just be me.
Los fines de semana siempre solía patinar sobre hielo. ( This is just another way of saying that you used to go skating).
De joven// cuando era pequeña solía hacer mas ejercicio ( this would also work, I think, but obviously it would be better not to repeat solía in both sentences.)
