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Decir is an irregular verb. It should be digame.


Usually the next to last syllable is stressed, but not in this case. You are just adding "me" to the end of chupa, diga, da, etc. so you would still stress the same part of the [first] word.

For example: You would stress:
chu-pa-me (chuuuuu-pame, not chupaaa-me)
di-ga-me (diii-game, not digaaaa-me)

Does that explain it?

Major edit here!

WOW! I got set straight by a teacher in Spain. Orange is 100% correct. Dime or digame is correct, and Diceme (though grammatically correct) is not recognized by the RAE.

More, when I say "diceme" and was being corrected, the teacher claimed that what she heard when I said it was more akin to "di se me" which is bad Spanish, but she said that was why they corrected me to pronounce the "se" pronoun (even though it doesn't belong there). In other words, since they weren't Spanish teachers, they corrected what they thought I was trying to say, rather than correcting my grammar as well.

Thanks to Orange for setting me on the right path.

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Different words for laying down: "acostarse", "echarse", "tumbarse", "tenderse", y "yacer"

One person explained it succinctly on italki.com.

acostarse denotes a purpose to sleep.

echarse does not specifically mean to sleep, and would be more proper if it isn't a bed you were going to lie down on.

tumbarse and tenderse refer to being horizontal in position, but not necessarily lying down as in English. Possibly falling into a horizontal position.

yacer is not reflexive, and is more literary, or used in relation to lying in a grave.

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Choosing and Guessing! escoger, elegir, adivinar, suponer

adivinar - to guess, divine, discern, perceive, deduce, figure out. (A mental action, it can mean 'making a guess', or deducing the outcome from available data ).

elegir - to choose, to elect. (I'm weak on this one, but from what I've gathered on feedback from italki, when you convert the mental guess into an actionable 'choice', it is an 'election' to action. In other words, eligir isn't actually 'the choice/la elección' itself, but the decision to 'make the choice'. It is also used specifically to how we use 'to elect').

escoger - to choose (when a 'guess' becomes an action, in other words, when you physically 'guess' by making a choice ).

suponer - to suppose, mean. (it's how we use 'to suppose', which is related to guessing and choosing, but is specific in mental activity. It seems to be specific in the past tense use, and there are several compound uses for this verb. It requires it's own entry.).

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Is this the agenda for the next lesson? Are you asking for help/opinions?

Sorry. Most of the time this thread is for my shortcuts. As I come across something that needs heavier focus, I add it to this thread.

When I need feedback, I will be specific to state such.

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Work: el trabajo versus la obra.

trabajar - to work
obrar - to behave/act, to bring about
funcionar - to work, run, operate, perform
currar - to work (informal phrase)
laburar - to work, slave away
laborar - to labor, work (rarely used - literature)
la labor
el empleo
la ocupación

So far, as I understand it, the noun 'work' in English is rent into spanish as either trabajo or obra, depending upon the context. El trabajo seems to deal specifically when talking about a job, or the successive activity of work, whereas la obra seems to depict the outcome of "el trabajo", as in something that has manifest from the activity. In other words, "work" as an activity versus "work" as an output.

Also, remember that a person "works", but a machine "functions".

Currar - "me voy al curro!!" - I'm off to work!

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brete- Tico slang for job

Donde estas? El brete (or breteando... working)

Next time you are about to tell a Tico/a that you are working or at work, use it. They will be quite impressed.

Quizlet Sets from Spanish Teacher

He's got 1 - 3 years of vocab posted for his students. You can effectively take the course through the vocab.

Click on 'Folders' to see them sorted efficiently.

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Basic question fragments that I never remember:

Cuânto es ... - how much is ...

Es [esto / eso] ... - Is [this / that] ...

Qué es ... - what is ... (there are several variations of "what")

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"Realizar": means to carry out, execute, to make, to conduct. If you want to say "realize" in Spanish you have to say: "Darse cuenta".

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Realizar more translates as "We realized a gain of 10 percent" ... this type of "realize".



Understand that the phrase "yo doy cuenta ..." is an exact translation for "I realize that...", however, "tu das cuenta ..." is not used to say "do you realize that...". Instead they use Saber. "Tu sabes que ..." - Do you know that ...".

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