Phrase · 🧩 Idioms in everyday speech
No tires la toalla ahora, que ya casi terminas la tesis.
Don't throw in the towel now, you've almost finished your thesis.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- tires → toalla: tirar la toalla: give up
- No → tires: no + subjunctive: negative imperative
- ya → terminas: ya casi + present: nearly there
Mot à mot : “Don't throw the towel now, for you almost finish the thesis already.”
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1tirar la toalla = to throw in the towel, to give up.
- 2Negative tú imperative = present subjunctive: no tires (affirmative tira). Negative imperative and imperative with pronouns →
- 3ya casi + present = you are nearly done: ya casi terminas.
Variantes
- No tires la toalla ahora, que ya te falta poco para terminar la tesis.
- No te rindas ahora, que ya casi terminas la tesis.
- No arrojes la toalla ahora, que ya casi acabas la tesis.