La Palabra Del Día: "zumbar"
zumbar ( zoom-bahr' )
verb ( to buzz, to hum )
Welcome to La Palabra Del Día
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.
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.
How to post a picture
Examples:
1: La abeja zumbaba alrededor de la margarita.
The bee was buzzing around the daisy.
2: Está zumbando muy fuerte el acondicionador de aire.
The air conditioner is humming really loudly.
15 Answers
¿Por qué zumba la abeja? Porque no sabe la letra.
Why does the bee buzz (hum)? Because he doesn't know the words.
Con suerte, este sitio puede continuar a zumbar en el futuro.
With luck, this site can continue to buzz into the future.
Con suerte, este sitio puede continuar zumbando hacia el futuro.
No estaba seguro de qué tipo de insecto zumbaba por todos partes anoche, pero al contrario de los mosquitos de los Estados Unidos, parecían preferir picar a otras personas, pero quizás fuera fue sólo porque la DEET que apliqué funcionaba.
I am not sure what type of insect was buzzing around last night, but in contrast to the mosquitos in the United States, they seemed to prefer to bite other people, but perhaps that was only because the DEET I put on was working.
Después de terminar el desayuno, los chicos salieron zumbando para la escuela.
After finishing breakfast the kids dashed off to school.
Se dice que cualquier edad es buena para zumbar, pero personalmente prefiero la yoga.
It is said that any age is good for zumba, but personally I prefer yoga.
Miró el reloj y salió zumbando. / He looked at his watch and rushed off.
Vete zumbando a la panadería. / Dash round to the baker’s.
Los oídos llevan zumbándome toda la mañana. / I’ve had a buzzing in my ears all morning.
El madre del niño le zumbó un buen golpe en la cabeza por decir la palabra 'zumbar' .
The boy's mother gave him a hard slap on the head for saying the word 'lay'.
When a catchy song gets stuck in your head it is easy to hum, but hopefully not too loud or people will treat you like a buzzing bee.
Cuando alegre canción se atasca en su cabeza es fácil hum, pero esperemos que no demasiado fuerte o la gente se sentirá como un zumbar de abeja.
They heard the bees buzzing and called the beekeeper to remove the bees to her hive.
Ellos escuchan oían las abejas zumbando y llamaron a la apicultora para quitar las abejas de su colmena.
In Puerto Rico, the meaning of the word zumbar is different. It means to go for something, jump into something or have the courage to do something.
Like, Yo me voy a zumbar para la playa. (I'm going to the beach)
A veces cuando el avión toma tierra aterriza tengo un zumbido en las orejas.
Sometimes when the plane lands I have a buzzing sound in my ears.
Quelques fois a l’atterrissage il y a comme un bourdonnement dans mes oreilles. (Ian’s post reminded me of this French sentence I learned years ago and practiced so much it became my fastest French sentence. In Spanish my fast sentence was “La música de esos países es muy popular en los estados unidos Estados Unidos.” - Thanks to those who care to know this!)
En cuanto me conecté al Messenger la gente empezó a mandarme zumbidos.
No sooner had I logged into Messenger than people started sending me nudges/buzzes.
Estoy acostumbrada a las abejas que zumban alrededor de las flores pero no me gustan nada las avispas europeas que zumban alrededor de nuestra comida.
I am used to the bees which buzz around the flowers but I do not like the European wasps which buzz around our food.
The bee carefully chose the single flower out of the vast field of flowers and began to buzz around it.
La abeja cuidadosamente eligió la flor sola en el vasto campo de flores y comenzó a buzz alrededor de él.
La abeja actor en el escenario dijo, a zumbar o no a zumbar esa es la cuestión.
The actor bee on stage said, to buzz or not to buzz that is the question.
