Phrase · 🙄 Colloquial reactions
¡Qué macana que no puedas venir!
What a shame you can't come!
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The notes match the numbers above.
- 1¡Qué macana! (Argentina, Uruguay) = what a shame!, bummer! Una macana is also a blunder or a fib. Lexicalised imperatives and pragmatic particles →
- 2Reaction + que + subjunctive, even for a known fact: que no puedas venir, as after ¡Qué pena que…! Subjunctive: emotions and reactions →
Variations
- ¡Qué lástima que no puedas venir!
- ¡Qué pena que no puedas venir!
- ¡Uy, qué macana que no vengas!