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Lo bueno de usar “Tumblr” para desahogarse, es que a nadie le importa.

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SOME BASQUE FALSE FRIENDS IN SPANISH

asko - looks like asco (disgust) - means many

baso - looks like vaso (glass) - means forest

beso - looks like beso (kiss) - means arm

gai - looks like gay - means capable

ijito - looks like hijito (little son) - means gypsy

konpondu - looks like componer (to compose) - means to fix

mutur - looks like motor - means snout

oro - looks like oro (gold) - means all

oso - looks like oso (bear) - means very

sakatu - looks like sacar (to take out) - means to push

saldu - looks like saldo (bank balance) - means to sell

tanta - looks like tanta (so much f.) - means drop

zorra - looks like zorra (female fox) - means the debt

zorro - looks like zorro (fox) - means backpack

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شعرت كما لو أنني أتوسل أن أعني لك شيئا

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أحدٌ يدري لمتى تتأخر الحسنى بعد عسر؟

¿Alguien sabe cuánto tarda en llegar lo bueno después de lo malo?

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Is there a proper term for "butt" in Spanish, or are all the words either vulgar or technical?

Nalgas vs trasero vs culo. I'm stuck.

las nalgas is like "butt" or "buttcheeks"; it's not vulgar at all

el trasero is literally "rear", but can get translated as "ass" but it's not specifically vulgar - it's just that it can be used in a somewhat vulgar way in English; but there isn't anything vulgar in the word itself, it is literally related to "rear end"

[trasero is linked to tras "after", detrás "behind", atrás "backwards"... as an adjective it means "rear" like las ruedas traseras "the rear wheels" as opposed to delantero/a "front"]

el culo is more the vulgar one... that's almost always just "ass" in a vulgar way but it's also very common

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EDIT: Medically or anatomically sometimes people will say los glúteos which is "buttocks" or "glutes", so this is probably the most clinical word for it

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Today's word of the day is...

Anemoia

[Noun]

Definition: A feeling of nostalgia for a time you have never known.

Example Sentence: A sense of anemoia filled her as Sanjana watched the family embrace.

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con respecto a situaciones hipotéticas, ¿cuál es la diferencia entre la condicional y el imperfecto del subjuntivo?

Por ejemplo, ¿hay una diferencia en el significado de las siguientes frases?:

— Si las ballenas hablasen, ¿qué nos dirían?

— Si las ballenas podrían hablar, ¿qué nos dirían?

I have to explain this in English because my Spanish isn't good enough to explain just how confusing this topic is, even for Spanish-speakers

First, hablasen is more typically used in Spain; makes perfect sentence, Latin America might use si las ballenas hablaran - way too much history behind that to explain it properly without going on a full tangent

Okay, but when it comes to imperfect subjunctive and conditional, know that Spanish-speakers have the exact same problem as English in that sometimes they use the same words for different tenses

What I mean is, English says "if I were rich" [imperfect subjunctive] but will also say "if I was rich" where "was" is more specifically past tense but gets used everywhere enough to make you wonder what tense you're using

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According to formal Spanish grammar, Spanish-speakers will typically use imperfect subjunctive for the "if" statement, and the "then" statement is conditional

Which means it really should be hablasen/hablaran and then dirían

BUT sometimes people WILL use the conditional for both sides of it

This is especially true if you're seeing "should have"... because it's almost always debería in conditional; in general "coulda, woulda, shoulda" is all conditional in Spanish

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The way I try to rationalize it to people is that imperfect subjunctive is a "contrary to fact" statement in hypotheticals. Something that isn't true but IF IT WERE TRUE [imperfect subjunctive], then what WOULD HAPPEN [conditional]

The more doubtful or unrealistic the statement is, the more imperfect subjunctive makes sense

That's why you'll almost always see como si fuera "as if it were", or lo que fuera "whatever it was"

Subjunctive introduces a below 50% chance of doubt pretty much; if it's more than 50% then it's indicative mood, in this case the conditional tense - that's a really broad statement and I can't say it's always the case, but that's how I try to tell people to think of it

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And of course any subjunctive phrases in the past will be using imperfect subjunctive just because that's what it is

In hypothetical situations, imperfect subjunctive feels like a true unlikely scenario, while conditional usually feels like a possible plan for the future

si pudiera hablar contigo "if I were able to speak with you" sounds so unlikely that it comes off deferential

si podría hablar contigo "if I could speak with you" feels like a polite request

That's how it works usually (outside of "should've" and "would've" and "could've" when talking about things that happened in the past)

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Anyway, all of that to say, both of those examples are technically possible because some people avoid imperfect subjunctive altogether because it is a pain

But - avoiding historical stuff and other rules and exceptions - I would go with si las ballenas hablasen/hablaran personally

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Profe 🍓:

I'm stuck in explaining myself clearly.

What's the best way to state these phrases en Español:

I'm looking forward to it

It sounds good to me

To "get on/in x" (I got on the train)

The literal translations sound "wrong".

#1 "looking forward"

This one is a bit of an idiomatic thing, but a few options. The first is simply estar deseando + infinitive which is "to be wanting to", like estoy deseando verte "I'm looking forward to seeing you" which is more literally "I am wanting to see you"

Aside from that, it's variations of esperar - I think a really common one is esperar con ansias which is probably the closest to expressing eagerness

el ansia isn't specifically "anxiety" but here it's like "anxiously awaiting" - usually el ansia refers to a kind of "yearning"; but the root word is both "anxious" and "eager", so it's that feeling regardless

[note: el ansia is technically feminine, it just keeps the masculine article because it's one of the words that start with A- or HA- that need that rule]

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#2 "sounds good to me"

This is assuming you're not actually talking about "sound" which is usually sonar

But in general the verbal expression here involves using parecer with an indirect object; parecer is often "to seem" as in appearances

Usually the expression is: me parece bien "it seems good to me" or "it sounds good to me"

You also see me parece buena idea "it sounds like a good idea to me" when giving an opinion on someone's ideas

Another potential option is para mí perfecto which I've seen as "fine by me" or "works for me"

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#3 "to get on/in"

The verb you're looking for is subir which is "to get into" most vehicles - trains, planes, cars, taxis, even roller coasters or amusement park rides etc. and it's usually followed by a or sometimes en

Literally subir is "to rise" or "to get up" or "to ascend", but it's kind of like "get on"

The only other variation is that bicycles and motorcycles, and horses, often take montar "to get on / to mount" - originally it came from mounting animals like horses and camels, but the same motion lends itself to bikes and motorcycles

As an example, you typically say subir al tren "to get on the train" or subir al avión "to get on the plane" - sometimes "to hop on"

If you were saying subir en la bici(cleta) then it sounds like you're going up a hill on a bike

Note: Sometimes subir is translated as "to board", like subir al avión can be "to board the plane"; it also works with ships that way - just know that the technical word for "getting onto a ship" is embarcar which is "embark" or literally "into ship" made into a verb. You may see embarcar in some settings, especially formal settings, but in general subir is more commonplace

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لا أريد أن أملأ فارغًا، بل أريد انا أصل إلى حيث لم يكن أحدٌ يومًا.

No quiero llenar un vacío, quiero conseguir un lugar donde nadie haya estado antes.

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أقوياء، هؤلاء الذين يعون أن لا شيء هناك ويرحلون، وإن كانوا يحتضرون ولهًا.

Fuertes, los que entienden que ahí no es y se van, aunque se estén muriendo de amor.

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كم هو جميل كذلك أن تَرعى. لا أن تُرعى فقط.

Qué bonito es también cuando cuidas. No sólo cuando te cuidan.

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لطالما كنت أعرف أنني ولدت لتعاطي المخدرات القوية

(الحب والحنان والرقة)

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ما لم نستطع فيما بيننا أن نكونه،

سنكونه مع آخرين،

الحب مدين لنا بذلك.