LivetoErr Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Para la cena, yo pollo asar a la parrilla, camote y frijoles. Yo cocino y mis familia come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czarina84 Posted December 16, 2015 Report Share Posted December 16, 2015 Comi pizza y las papas por la cena. That is supposed to be I ate pizza and chips (American) for supper. I apologize for any mangling I have done. Please correct me if I'm wrong, native Spanish speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watangaboy Posted December 16, 2015 Report Share Posted December 16, 2015 On 1/21/2014 at 7:20 AM, LivetoErr said: Para la cena, yo pollo asar a la parrilla, camote y frijoles. Yo cocino y mis familia come. Expand Para la cena, yo asé pollo a la parrilla, camote y frijoles. Yo cocino y mi familia come. The verb "asar" might be difficult. You used the infinitive tense for this one when it should be the past simple (pretérito perfecto simple). The last phrase is mostly correct, but it gives a certain tone, like a complaint: "I cook and my family eats". Maybe a better one would simply be: "Yo cocino para mi familia", I cooked for my family. I'm not an expert but I'd like to point those things out. P.S: In my country we call camote "Boniato" or even "Batata". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmniHead Posted December 16, 2015 Report Share Posted December 16, 2015 On 12/16/2015 at 4:11 PM, czarina84 said: Comi pizza y las papas por la cena. That is supposed to be I ate pizza and chips (American) for supper. I apologize for any mangling I have done. Please correct me if I'm wrong, native Spanish speakers. Expand You were close to correct @czarina84 The right way to say "I ate pizza and chips for supper" is this; Comí pizza y papas en la cena. In Spanish is not necessary to add the article "las" before papas (potatoes) and while in English we use "for supper," in Spanish the right word is "en" (in) Moreover, it's more common talk about last night supper this way; "Anoche cené (dined) pizza y papas" which translates as "last night I dined pizza and potatoes" One more insight; most Spanish countries have adopted a mix of English vocabulary into its context to when you refer to have eaten potatoes, you are not specifying which type of preparation. For chips, you may probably say to have eaten chips without need to translate this specific item because people already knows what kind of potatoes you got czarina84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czarina84 Posted December 17, 2015 Report Share Posted December 17, 2015 Are you saying that I should have said "chips" in my Spanish translation? Is that the word Spanish speakers use? Or are you saying that I should just use "papas" for any type of potatoes (chips, fries, baked, etc)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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