La Palabra Del Día "antepasado"
antepasado ( ahn-teh-pah-sah'-doh )
noun ( ancestor, forebear )
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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: Este altar se construyó para honrar nuestros antepasados.
This altar was built to honor our ancestors.
2: Los antepasados de mi familia llegaron aquí en 1610.
My family's forebears arrived here in 1610.
10 Answers
Mis antepasados vinieron de España, Canadá, e Israel.
My ancestors came from Spain, Canada and Israel.
Mis antepasados son irlandeses con el inglés, francés y el español
para agregar un poco de especia.
My ancestors are Irish with English,French and Spanish to add some spice.
La mayoría de los australianos disfrutan tener antepasados que fueron convictos
Most Australians enjoy having ancestors who were convicts.
Se supone que algunos de mis antepasados recorrieron a veces pintados azules con glasto, pero no eran pitufos.
Supposedly some of my ancestors went around at times painted blue with woad, but they were not smurfs.
Una "kamidana" es un altar japonés utilizando en la practica sintoísta para dar ofrendas a los antepasados.
A "kamidana" is a Japanese altar used in Shinto practice to give offerings to one's ancestors.
Our ancestors would not forgive us for the state of the world today.
Nuestros antepasados no nos perdonarían por el estado del mundo de hoy.
Mi único antepasado famoso es Charles B. Stivers, que fue un capitán en la Guerra Civil de Estados Unidos y director del colegio Central High en Dayton, OH (¡cuando los hermanos Wright asistieron!) La Stivers School for the Arts en Dayton lleva su nombre.
My only famous ancestor is Charles B. Stivers, who was a captain in the US Civil War and principal of Central High in Dayton (when the Wright Brothers attended!). The Stivers School for the Arts is named after him.
Se dice que nuestros antepasados no hubieron hecho grandes aspavientos sobre la matrimonio en su época.
It is said that our ancestors had not made much fuss about the marriage at the time.
Los cientificos han teorizado que las aves modernas evolicionaron de los antepasados de los dinosaurios.
Scientists have theorized that modern birds evolved from dinosaur ancestors.
Uno de los primeros antepasados comunes del hombre y los chimpancés vivió hace 4,4 millones de años en lo que es ahora Etiopía.
One of the first common ancestors of man and chimpanzees lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia
Mi marido tiene un antepasado que era un convicto, asi que nuestros hijos lo tienen también, pero yo no lo tengo. ¡ Es nuestra chiste que eso explica mucho!
My husband has an ancestor who was a convict, so our children have one also, but I don't have one. It's our joke that this explains a lot!
