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Here's a good one:

me engañastes! ... you fooled/tricked/hoodwinked me!

The verb infinitive is Engañar. It is formed in a past tense. According to my 'source', using it in the present is an accusation of someone trying to deceive you. Perhaps I should add this post to the RFM threads.

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another interesting phrase:

como comenta Orange, ... "as Orange says/said/has said". It's a phrase meant to convey your restatement of another's words, in support.

Google recognized it immediately, so it must be a standardized way to say this.

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I'll use it next time a chica refuses to do a bbbj after previously agreeing to it!

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Follow it up with: "Como comenta Mucho Gusto ... NEXT!!!".

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You don't need all that... just point to the door and say JALE!!!! (pronounced "hallei")

It literally means "pull" but it's Tico slang for beat it/get out.

Make sure you point to the door, as it's also Tico slang for giving a hand job.
It's multifunctional.

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Sometimes reflexive pronouns are added to a verb to intensify it or make it stronger than it would otherwise be. We often accomplish this in English by adding the words "up" or "down":

Ella se cae mucho. ..... She falls down a lot.

Él se comió toda la comida rápidamente. ..... He ate up all the food quickly.

This actually explains some weird things I have seen when a verb is reflexive for no freakin reason. They use it as a stress-word. Very interesting.

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Converting nouns into verbs

A noun can be transformed into a verb by keeping the root of the word and:
adding " -ando" or "iendo" (gerund)
or
adding " -ar"," -er" or "-ir" (infinitive)

For example:
primitive word: cuchara (spoon)
root: cuchar
*gerund: cuchareando (spooning)
present participle: está cuchareando (is spooning)
*infinitive: cucharear
present tense: yo cuchareo, tú cuchareas, él ...


How to find the root of a word:
1.- Eliminate any suffix, prefix, and/or derivative.
2.- Eliminate any ending that can guide to a gender or number. (Usually the root word will end in a consonant)
3.- You will need the auxiliary verb "estar" to create a sentence:
Example:
El niño está cuchareando la sopa.
The boy is spooning the soup.

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If the word ends with:

-n ...
-o .......
-l .......... Ninety-nine percent of the time, the word will be masculine. Exceptions: la mano, la noche, la foto, la moto.
-e .......
-r ....
-s ..

-d ..
-a ....
-z .......
-ión ........
-ie ............ Ninety-nine percent of the time, the word will be feminine. Exceptions: el lápiz, el avión, el camión, el día.
-sis .......
-itis ....
-umbre .

-ma ....
-pa ........ Usually are masculine: el clima, el diploma, el drama, el sistema, el aroma, el poema, el tema, etc.
-ta ....

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Siiiiiii papi !!!!

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You ALWAYS have an option ....... "NEXT" !!!

Ok, I pulled a 'Tippin' with my Spanish on the last trip.

I checked into my apartment with several bags, including a military duffel bag packed with stuff. Since I had 3 flights of stairs to climb, I decided to leave the duffel downstairs and come back for it.

The woman running the place offered to help me with the bag. I told her not to worry about it, as it was heavy.

"no te preocupes. Es pescado!".

She looked perplexed, stared at the duffel bag, and exclaimed: "Pescado?!?!? ... ... ahh ... PESADO!".

She laughed, I looked sheepish. I confused the word heavy "pesado" with the word for fish "pescado".
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Did it again! When complementing a young mother on her new baby, do not confuse the words "tesoro" for "torero".

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I think caerse is a reflexive verb... so "se cae" would be normal usage if it is used in a normal reflexive way. The verb caer is the non-reflexive version. So saying "Ella se cae mucho" in English is something like "she falls herself a lot" which is just normal reflexive verb usage I think. I agree it is confusing as to which verbs have both forms.... but probably if it is something you can do to yourself or from yourself there will be a verb form ending in "se"... and a corresponding verb without the "se" which is when the object of the sentence is different than the subject. Reflexive is subject / object such as (she....herself, I...myself, etc.). We don't distinguish these very clearly in English... for example we say "he falls" as well as "he falls the tree". They are different verbs, or at least different usages in reality in English too.... but they look the same. But in Spanish if you don't have the "se" you are looking for a different object...such as the tree in the English example.

Tico Spanish is pretty phucked up. They say a lot of wrong shit but it's accepted as correct since everybody does it.

It's the same here. Deep South English is as bad as New England English.

Just when did " Ain't " become a fukin word anywayz???

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You can find people who pluck up their language just about anywhere you go! Hey, and "AIN'T" is, and has been, a word for many, many years!!

Over a 30+ year period I had many uneducated Mexican and Guatemalan employees who totally destroyed the Spanish language, much worse than any Tico I have ever heard!!! My Spanish today is very bad as much as anything from listening to, and learning from, those employees. My last wife on the other hand was from Cali, Colombia, only had a 3rd grade formal education, and yet she was considered the leading cosmetic skin specialist in Colombia. Her Spanish was near perfect "castellano" Spanish! In fact she said to me many times (one too many!! ) : "Si no puedas hablar espanol corecto, CERRADO SU BOCA"!!!!

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