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Old December 16, 2009, 09:06 AM
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Serie (de luces)
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serie (de luces) (feminine noun (la)) — Christmas lights, string of lights. Look up serie (de luces) in the dictionary

Me tomó tres horas ponerle la serie al árbol y cuando la conecté, la mitad no prendía.
It took me three hours to put the lights on the tree and when I plugged them in, half of them didn't light up.
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Old December 16, 2009, 09:31 AM
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So what would be the plural of this? "Series de luces"?
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Old December 16, 2009, 09:33 AM
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¿Serie de luces" ¿Se dice en algún sitio? Nosotros decimos "luces navideñas" o "luces de navidad". Sí, ya sé que son en serie y que si se funde una bombilla (en las antiguas) tienes que cambiarla porque no funcionan las demás. Pero no sé si se dice "serie de luces"



Sí, el plural de "serie" es "series"
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Old December 16, 2009, 09:49 AM
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Todas las frases para mí son familiares.

Siempre traduzco "serie de luces" al inglés como "string of lights".

Es que todos mis profesores eran de distintas partes del mundo hispanico,
Cuba, Mejico, Madrid, Barcelona, etc.
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Old December 16, 2009, 09:57 AM
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Todas las frases para mí son familiares.

Siempre traduzco "serie de luces" al inglés como "string of lights".

Es que todos mis profesores eran de distintas partes del mundo hispanico,
Cuba, Mejico, Madrid, Barcelona, etc.
In this case, I'd say "tira de luces". Here is commoner than "serie".
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In this case, I'd say "tira de luces". Here is commoner than "serie".
more common...

En Chile las llamamos "luces de Pascua o de Navidad"
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more common...
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1920
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more common...

En Chile las llamamos "luces de Pascua o de Navidad"
I've just studied that I can say both commoner or more common. Usually I say 'more common', but when I was writing my sentence, I realized that I had already written 'common' and so I just added '-er'
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@Lou Ann: Correct.
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Here I write another example.

I tried to fix my computer and when I turn to turn on the computer I can see that the computer I haven't been plugged to the electricity.

It was really sucks.

Irmamar, here in Mexico the ideal word is Serial de luces.

I don't know as really it's named in another places.
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