Pepino

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by EmpanadaRica

¡Interesante para saberlo! ¡Gracias Perikles!

Niets te danken

[EmpanadaRica]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Niets te danken

Spreek je ook nog Nederlands? Wat goed !
Very impressive!

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by EmpanadaRica

Spreek je ook nog Nederlands? Wat goed !
Very impressive!

Not really, I only know one other expression, which is rude and I can't spell it.

[EmpanadaRica]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Not really, I only know one other expression, which is rude and I can't spell it.

Yeah it seems to be the case that people always learn those first.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by EmpanadaRica

Indeed David, I have heard cumbersome before, thanx for telling me.
It's very funny you should mention it because this again bears great resemblance to another Dutch word :kommer

Kommer = problems, agravation (oldfashioned word).

Zich bekommeren om = to worry about, to care about.

In fact this is a wordjoke which is made with these two words I have seen several times;
Kommer en kwel = a whole lot of misery

Becomes >>> 'Komkommer en kwel' = a play on words.

http://www.komkommerenkwel.nl/

¡Muchas gracias!

Thank you. I wrote met instead of meat.

Thank you for your correction.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Originally Posted by laepelba

Afortunadamente, los pepinos no engordan. Que son las únicas cosas!

So, when using one of your phrases in a sentence, it could be like this: Me importa un pepino el juego de fútbol. (¡¡A mí también!!) Or would I use "sobre" or some other connector word?

While I was typing this, a friend in Uruguay IM'ed me and at one point during the conversation, she said "no entiendo un pepino".

"No entender un pepino" means not to understand anything.

By the way - I don't believe that anyone has mentioned the English idiom: cool as a cucumber. Is there something similar in Spanish?

Pjt tiene razón: el apio tampoco engorda.


As for "cool as a cucumber", we say "fresco/fresca como (una) lechuga".
... (por cierto, las lechugas tampoco engordan)