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Old August 02, 2010, 01:24 PM
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Then definitely I can use roof for express a word or a phrase related with the Techo de alguna casa.

For example.

The house's roof is falling to be old. I think you mean to say "The house's roof is old and is falling in." You want the word "in" there. I would put the "old" part first because it's the cause of the falling of the roof.

The roof of my house is broken.
Careful with your spelling, Crotalito - it's roof. You spelled it incorrectly each time. I made some corrections to one of your sentences.

Thanks, everyone. Another case of (1) lots of Spanish synonyms, and (2) different usages in different countries/regions of the world. That's one (two, I suppose) of the things I like most about the Spanish language. But it also is one of the hardest things for me. Instead of studying collocations, I ought to make a study of vocabulary that includes synonyms and the contexts in which different synonyms are used.
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Old August 02, 2010, 02:36 PM
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Chileno.

I've a question.
Then definitely I can use root for express a word or a phrase related with the Techo de alguna casa.

For example.

The house's root is falling to be old.

The root of my house is broken.


I hope your commentaries.
Yes you can use roof as techo.
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Well, I think if you go with DRAE, and learn and understand the definitions, you cannot go wrong in any area of the Spanish-speaking map... although I am sometimes very surprised at things... Here are a couple of DRAE definitions,
techo. (Del lat. tectum).
1. m. Parte superior de un edificio, que lo cubre y cierra, o de cualquiera de las estancias que lo componen.
2. m. Cara inferior del techo, superficie que cierra en lo alto una habitación o espacio cubierto.

cielo 4. m. Parte superior que cubre algunas cosas. El cielo de la cama, del coche.
(By extrapolation, you can say "techo" = "cielo", per this definition 4.)

tejado.
1. m. Parte superior del edificio, cubierta comúnmente por tejas.

And that reminded me a tongue twister that may be useful for you... (I include 2 versions) (The second one is the one I remembered from childhood, the first one is the first one I found on a Google search.)

María Chucena su choza techaba,
un techador que atento miraba
le dijo: «¿Qué haces, María Chucena,
techas tu choza o techas la ajena?»
«No techo mi choza
ni techo la ajena,
techo la choza
de María Chucena.»

María Chucena su techo techaba
y un techador que por allí pasaba
le preguntó:
María Chucena, ¿tú techas tu choza o techas la ajena?
Yo no techo mi choza ni techo la ajena,
yo techo la choza de María Chucena.

Also, at least in Spain, the film "Fiddler on the Roof" is "El violinista en el tejado" (Probably there are some version with "El violinista en el techo"?)
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Old August 02, 2010, 11:07 PM
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Perdón de antemano, pero no la puedo dejar pasar...

También:

Techo una o techo dos, no importa decía ella, sin remilgos.
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Thank you for advice.
Lea.

Chileno.

Thank you man.
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Old August 02, 2010, 11:29 PM
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Perdón de antemano, pero no la puedo dejar pasar...

También:

Techo una o techo dos, no importa decía ella, sin remilgos.

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Elaina, tú dominas el español a la perfección...

Bueno, hablando de "techar" y de "techo", aunque me vaya un poquito por las ramas... había un cuplé, que decía: ¡Echa té, ¡echa té..., a la camarera le dice: ¡Echa té!

Que sólo significa "Pour tea!, pour tea! To the waitress he tells her, "pour tea!"... right?
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Elaina, tú dominas el español a la perfección...

Bueno, hablando de "techar" y de "techo", aunque me vaya un poquito por las ramas... había un cuplé, que decía: ¡Echa té, ¡echa té..., a la camarera le dice: ¡Echa té!

Que sólo significa "Pour tea!, pour tea! To the waitress he tells her, "pour tea!"... right?
Right......sure........

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That's curious, I would never say "techo" for roof, but "tejado". Techo: ceiling, roof: tejado. However, I would say "una cabaña/choza con el techo de paja". I should think about it.

And about "cielo", I've heard "el cielo de la boca" (curiously, roof of the mouth in English), but never "el cielo del coche", but "el techo del coche".
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That's curious, I would never say "techo" for roof, but "tejado". Techo: ceiling, roof: tejado. However, I would say "una cabaña/choza con el techo de paja". I should think about it.

And about "cielo", I've heard "el cielo de la boca" (curiously, roof of the mouth in English), but never "el cielo del coche", but "el techo del coche".
Right. However, tejado is used also, but strictly speaking, it is because the roof has tejas (or should it be texas?)

Techo de paja, madera, metal but never techo de tejas. And that's a tejado.

As "cielo" is concerned, according to RAE: we can say el cielo del auto/coche but I have never used it that way either, or "cielo de la boca" para mí eso es "paladar".

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