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by buttman on April 11th, 2009
It's the present tense of the verb "SOBRAR", which
means "to exceed". Belongs to 1rst, 2nd and 3rd person
of the plural. It's what they call in spanish "irregular" verb.
by JimmyG on April 11th, 2009
It is the the present, third person plural of sobrar, to be superfluous.
by Anonymous on September 30th, 2009
mean needless or or having more of what you need
by lonerwolfie on January 30th, 2011
The exact translation to this is
there is a more than a simple desire of loving like the first time
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How would u translate the sentence in the question? I'm trying to translate a song. Thank You.
by Gina A on April 12th, 2009
"There's plenty desire to love each other as the first time".
Now, as you probably know, translations are very seldom literally
exact. But this one is very close.
by buttman on April 12th, 2009
I am a beginner at learing spanish. I have picked up a few things. Alot of the basic words and phrases. But I usually go to studyspanish.com to translate these songs. And I'm using it to help me learn.
Thank u so much for ur help.
by Gina A on April 13th, 2009
You're very welcome any time.
by buttman on April 13th, 2009
I'm sure I will be back asking for more help on translations.
by Gina A on April 13th, 2009
Super cool!
by buttman on April 13th, 2009
Have u got any tips that would help me learn it easier.
I wish I could start at elementary level like they would do in school but only with a english speaker. That would be so cool.
by Gina A on April 13th, 2009
Here's a few tips. First, you want the learning process to be fun.
It makes it easier for the brain to absorb and retain informations. So find products or sources for the learning that
offers games and activities, and avoid, if you can, the old tapes and compact discs which just follows the "listen-and repeat" method which can be very boring(personal experience). Second, if
you have access to spanish shows with subtitles regularly, where you can pick phrases commonly used in Spanish. There you can learn
how phrases are properly said.
by buttman on April 13th, 2009
Third--and this is very important--avoid attempting to make comparison or draw parallels between English and Spanish. Doing
this you can make the learning process more difficult and thus
frustrating. You should focus on how the language is spoken correctly rather than on "why" it is spoken that way. And don't
say: "Man, Spanish language is spoken backward". Remember that
spanish speaking people could say the same thing about English.
But that's no such a thing.
by buttman on April 13th, 2009
Finally, for now, you also want to consider online free tutorial
or free classes. Research the Net, but avoid crap like: "Learn to
Speak Spanish fluently In 30 minutes". That's bull crap. Let me
know if I can be of further assistance. : ) )
by buttman on April 13th, 2009
I can get about 4 differnt spanish channels on my T.V. and several
Spanish music channels which I love. Thank u so much for the advice. I noticed that I did make comparisons with the English and Spanish, ur right. Spanish is spoken a certain way and English is spoken a certain way. And I do have a listen and learn spanish that is on CD and it did come with a book and it shows how the words are supposed to be pronounced, which I love that.
It does get boring but it does have a native speaker on there so I can hear exactly how its said and I can take my book with me when I go places.. But thank you again for the advice.
by Gina A on April 14th, 2009
You're most certainly welcome.
by buttman on April 14th, 2009
Buttman, do you know of any genuine and good quality free online tutorials? I would love to learn Spanish.
by nucleotideboy on September 30th, 2009
Actually 'sobran' is not irregular -- it's the 3rd person plural present tense of 'sobrar', it does not 'bring together the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tenses'. The reason it seems strange is because its object is typically the speaker as an indirect object, as in "me sobran las cosas" (I have some things leftover). In this case "las cosas" is the subject (plural) and the timeframe is present tense.
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=sobran
by HasntBeen on September 30th, 2009
@nucleotideboy:
Here's some good Spanish learning resources:
Word reference: http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=puede
About.com: http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=puede
Free podcasts for beginners: http://www.notesinspanish.com/category/beginners-podcast/
Interactive tutorial: http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm
My favorite 'learning Spanish advice' is to go to an adult night school where they teach English to immigrants, and find someone who wants to do 'intercambio' (language exchange). Meet with them weekly, and spend half the time working on their English and half the time on your Spanish. Both parties are motivated, you make friends and learn quickly from a native speaker.
by HasntBeen on September 30th, 2009
Thanks HasntBeen. That's great.
by nucleotideboy on September 30th, 2009
"Nos sobran" is, indeed, the first person of the plural. "NOS" in
spanish refer to "WE" and/or "US" in English. "LES SOBRAN" refer
to the 3rd person of the plural also "LE" refers to the 3rd
person of the singular in Spanish, and "LES" refers to the 3rd
person of the plural in Spanish. "TE SOBRAN" refers to the 2nd
person of the singular. But in some strange way, "LES SOBRAN" can
also be used in the 2nd person of the plural, for example: "A USTEDES ("you" in the plural in Spanish) LE SOBRAN".
by buttman on October 1st, 2009
That's all correct, and there's nothing strange about it -- it's a standard description of indirect object grammar. It's just that this explanation does not at all map to what you said (perhaps by mistake?) in your answer originally... that 'sobran brings together the first, second, and third person singular and plural'. It sounds like you were confusing the object of the verb with the verb conjugation itself. The reason 'sobran' is plural is because the subject of the verb -- the things left over -- are plural. If there is only one thing left over, it should be so indicated with a change in verb tense (i.e. me sobra un dolar).
by HasntBeen on October 1st, 2009
Yes, It was a mistake indeed.
by buttman on October 1st, 2009