Spanish speakers! What could my brother be doing to his furniture? (MORE QUESTIONS IN POST 4)

[Daria]

My son is working on his Spanish homework, and needs to add a word to the following sentence so that it makes sense.  Ideally it should be a word taught in the current unit.  Neither of our brains are working, can someone give us an idea of what the sentence could be?

Mi hermano pasa                           los muebles

Edited June 28, 2016 by Daria

[chiguirre]

entre (between)

 

My brother walks between the furniture. It's a bit weird but it's the only one word answer I could come up with.

[eternalsummer]

It's gotta be a preposition.  

[Daria]

Thank you!  How about these two:  

 

 Mi papá corta                           todos los veranos.

 

Pepita y Jorge                           lavando la ropa.

 

 

[Lanny]

OP the title of your thread caught my eye.  Great that chiguirre answered your question.   I wondered, from the title, what your brother was doing to his furniture...

[Daria]

OP the title of your thread caught my eye.  Great that chiguirre answered your question.   I wondered, from the title, what your brother was doing to his furniture...

 

Thank you!  Now I want to know what my short papa is doing every summer?  Should I join him or is he doing something boring like mowing the lawn?  I know it's more interesting than doing the laundry with Jorge and Pepita!

[Matryoshka]

Thank you!  Now I want to know what my short papa is doing every summer?  Should I join him or is he doing something boring like mowing the lawn?  I know it's more interesting than doing the laundry with Jorge and Pepita!

 

No, 'corta' doesn't mean short in this sentence, it's a verb, meaning 'to cut' (cortar).  So papa cuts .... and it's probably the lawn. ;)  (el césped)

 

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Pepita y Jorge están lavando la ropa.  :)

 

 

Edited June 28, 2016 by Matryoshka

[Daria]

No, 'corta' doesn't mean short in this sentence, it's a verb, meaning 'to cut' (cortar).  So papa cuts .... and it's probably the lawn. ;)  (el césped)

 

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Pepita y Jorge están lavando la ropa.   :)

 

Thank you!

[mamiof5]

Thank you! How about these two:

 

 

 

Mi papá corta todos los veranos.

"pasto" for the first one? (Another word for grass). And definitely ESTAN lavando )clotheor=rgb(0,0,0)][/color]

 

Pepita y Jorge lavando la ropa.

ETA: not sure how I managed to put the answer together with your questions? Kind of cool! But wasn't trying to. Sorry, typing on cell with one hand while holding baby 😉 Edited June 28, 2016 by mamiof5

[Mabelen]

Papá could also cut leña todos los veranos in preparation for the winter, right? Are these from a modern or older textbook?

[Daria]

Papá could also cut leña todos los veranos in preparation for the winter, right? Are these from a modern or older textbook?

These are from the absolutely awful online Spanish curriculum my son's school insists on for kids who in the home/hospital program. So, I am guessing modern.

[Mabelen]

These are from the absolutely awful online Spanish curriculum my son's school insists on for kids who in the home/hospital program. So, I am guessing modern.

Haha, I can feel the love! But seriously, it could still be an adaptation of an older textbook into online content. My guess is that either césped or pasto for the more modern/urban/suburban version and leña for the older/rural version, your pick!

[chiguirre]

Another option instead of césped or leña is la grama (the grass). There are slightly different expressions in different countries.

[AmandaVT]

OP the title of your thread caught my eye.  Great that chiguirre answered your question.   I wondered, from the title, what your brother was doing to his furniture...

 

Me too! I opened it up, even though I speak no spanish, thinking your brother was posting in Spanish on FB or something about crazy furniture shenanigans. :-)

[MyLittleBears]

We say la grama! :)

[Lanny]

We have  a gardener who comes once a month to cut the "prado".  I just put that into Google Translate and it came out as "meadow".  I think that's what my wife says when he comes.  He cuts it with a weed eater, not a lawn mower.