Spanish Word of the Day
Sunday, October 28, 2012
cansado
adjective: tired
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The meaning of cansado changes completely depending on whether you use it with ser or estar. When you want to talk about you or somebody else being tired, you use cansado with estar:
Carlos
está muy cansado. Carlos is very tired.Estoycansada de hacer lo mismo todos los días. I’m tired of doing the same thing every day. -
If a job or task is tiring, you describe it using cansado and ser:
Carlos
está muy cansado. Carlos is very tired.Estoycansada de hacer lo mismo todos los días. I’m tired of doing the same thing every day.Debe de sercansado tener que corregir tantos exámenes. It must be tiring having to mark so many exam papers.
