Comments on: Uses of The Spanish Verb Dar! Free PDF Report!

By: cp

cp — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:42:23 +0000

I love these! Phrases are such a good way to learn a language. Thanks

By: deebee

deebee — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:39:23 +0000

Hola Marina y Ben. Gracias por el texto gratuito. Me gusta usar las frases coloquiales.
Estoy de acuerdo con Ann, sería muy útil saber más del verbo ‘poner’.
Thank you for keeping in touch with us non-gold users. Hope you are enjoying all the work you are putting in.
A foto of Leo would be nice.
Saludos Dee

By: Jon Mooron

Jon Mooron — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:46:04 +0000

Bob, if “Europeans need to stick together more than ever if we are ever going to get out of this mess” espero que no significa que no nos importe el resto del mundo, angloparlantes, hispanoparlantes y los demas. Los pobres chinos, por ejemplo, ¿de donde vamos a comparar las cervezas a las 5 por la mañana sin ellos?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:44:42 +0000

Hi Anne,

Good idea, we’ll get onto that soon!

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:23:11 +0000

Bravo, muchas gracias a Ben y Marina. Por favor, sería (?) posible hacer lo mismo con el verbo ‘poner’ porque tengo muchas dificultades con este verbo. Gracias en anticipación!

By: Courtney Williams

Courtney Williams — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:18:20 +0000

Wow!! These dar expressions are fabulous! Great example sentences of each one, too! I appreciate the large-sized font. I can print on both sides of the paper to conserve, but even with glasses, regular sized font is way too small for me to read (and I’m not that old!) Please do not change the font-size!!!! I also appreciate how you always bold the text!!

Courtney

By: Marina

Marina — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:14:08 +0000

Thanks to everyone for your comments!!!

Also :
@ Bob for your correction… totally my fault:-( and for the Sade info, I didn’t even know she had a new cd.

@Clair, you are right that for printing is not ideal. A quick solution for that is to print 2 or 4 pages in one sheet of paper and then use both sides of the paper.
(From the printing menu select “layout” and then 2 or 4 “pages per sheet”)

Saludos a todos,
Marina.

By: jelena

jelena — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:57:52 +0000

Ben y Marina muchisimas gracias!!!

By: Fatima Povo

Fatima Povo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:59:32 +0000

Muchas Gracias, Ben y Marina. Otra piedra preciosa de ellos.

By: anthony crespo

anthony crespo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:28:35 +0000

First of all, good job as usual. If everyone chips in, things are bound to improve which will redound to the benefit of the whole language learning community.

You may find these tips useful:
1) que le den (no accent is required)
2) dar de alta is also used for discharging someone
3) be careful not to give the meaning loosely eg dar pena is used in a ‘wrong sided’way like gustar and therefore does not mean “to be sorry”. Eg doy pena does not mean “I am sorry”
4) other useful contributions that come to mind, without being exhaustive, are
a) dar por sentado–to take for granted
b) phrases such as “me dio gripe/fiebre etc”–I got the flu/fever
c) “dale” (command from darle which is used to indicate that someone should carry out a simple but understood instruction eg flicking a switch, starting a car, pouring a drink)
d) dar las buenas noches–to say goodnight
e) se las da de inteligente–he thinks he’s so smart
f) dar un paso — to take a step (eg forward)