Phrase · 🗺️ Regional colloquial Spanish
Ahorita llega la guagua, no te desesperes.
The bus will be here any minute, don't lose patience.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- llega → guagua: la guagua: subject after the verb
- no → desesperes: no + subjunctive: negative imperative
- te → desesperes: te desesperes: desesperarse
Mot à mot : “Right now arrives the bus, don't despair.”
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1la guagua = the bus in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Canary Islands. In Chile and the Andes a guagua is a baby!
- 2ahorita = in a moment; in the Caribbean, as in Mexico, it can stretch to "some time later". Word formation: diminutives, augmentatives, prefixes and -mente →
- 3Negative imperative = present subjunctive, pronoun first: no te desesperes (affirmative: cálmate). Negative imperative and imperative with pronouns →
Variantes
- Ahorita viene la guagua, ten paciencia.
- Ahorita llega el autobús, no te desesperes.
- La guagua ya viene, tranquilo.