role-play
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role-play(
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)A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g., I bought a book.).
1. (to act out)
a. interpretar
The teacher asked Bernie to role-play a police officer arresting someone.El maestro le pidió a Bernie que interpretara a un policía arrestando a alguien.
An intransitive verb is one that does not require a direct object (e.g., The man sneezed.).
a. actuar
The bully had to role-play as a wimp in the exercise.El matón tuvo que actuar como un cobarde en el ejercicio.
b. realizar un juego de roles
Chrissy likes to role-play in private with her boyfriend.A Chrissy le gusta realizar un juego de roles en privado con su novio.
role play
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
3. (acting)
a. el juego de roles (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The trainer had the teachers do a role-play where one was a student and another a parent.El entrenador hizo que los profesores hicieran un juego de roles donde uno era un estudiante y otro un padre.
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