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canica (feminine noun (la)) — marble. Look up canica in the dictionary

De niño, jugaba yo canicas.
As a child, I played marbles.
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Old April 21, 2009, 03:13 AM
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I would say: De niño, jugaba a las canicas
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what would be the adjective?
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what would be the adjective?
I think you may be confusing the marble which is the little round (often glass) balls that children play with and collect with its homonym marble the stone.
A marble table in Spanish is una mesa de marmol. Caneca is a word that
may not have an adjective form unless you are very creative with language.
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It's not an adjective, but an expression

for a coward
"tienes los huevos como dos canicas"
you balls are so big as two marbles...

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Volverse loco se puede decir lose your marbles en inglés. Es un dicho común.
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It's not an adjective, but an expression

for a coward
"tienes los huevos como dos canicas"
you balls are so big as two marbles...

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Jugar a las canicas en Chile se dice "jugar a las bolitas"
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I would say: De niño, jugaba a las canicas
As would I The DailyWordBot was very sleepy when he entered the word last night.
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@David: In Mexico we say "jugar canicas".


And slang about something very old: "Eso es del año de la canica".
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Pues yo diría que "niño" es adjetivo. "De niño" creo que es un complemento predicativo compuesto por una preposición y un adjetivo (que sería un sintagma adjetival). Pero hace ya tiempo que lo estudié y no lo recuerdo mucho.
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