any spanish people out there that can translate this properly

[metsfan1545d]

¿Qué esperas que haga tu compañero/a de cuarto o apartamento?

ive tried like 5 translators and every time it comes back incoherent, its for an assignment in my spanish class and i havent a clue what it means

[Dexter Morgan]

No comprende

[toef]

Originally Posted by metsfan1545d

¿Qué esperas que haga tu compañero/a de cuarto o apartamento?

ive tried like 5 translators and every time it comes back incoherent, its for an assignment in my spanish class and i havent a clue what it means

I haven't taken spanish in a long time, but it looks like it roughly says "what do you hope/wish your roommate is doing?"

My spanish could be off but I'm pretty sure esperar = to hope/wish; haga is from hacer and means "he/she is doing", and companero de cuarto is a roommate (or companero de apartamento).

The problem is hacer is used in so many different ways, and can therefore mean just about anything. It depends on the context that it's being used in. Were there other sentences before this question, to hint at what your roommate was doing (writing a book, cooking dinner, watching TV, etc)?

[Bizdady]

esperar could also mean wait but I dont think that what its going for in this sentence. But in this sentence I think its going for "What do you expect your roomate will do?"

[bigpapy]

[QUOTE=Bizdady;1650607]esperar could also mean wait but I dont think that what its going for in this sentence. But in this sentence I think its going for "What do you expect your roomate will do?"[/QUOTE]

correcto

[toef]

[QUOTE=bigpapy;1650648]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

esperar could also mean wait but I dont think that what its going for in this sentence. But in this sentence I think its going for "What do you expect your roomate will do?"[/QUOTE]

correcto

I was wayyyyy off.



Actually, maybe not much, but I thought haga was the present subjunctive? Wouldn't "will do" be hara (with an accent on the 2nd a)?

[Bizdady]

[QUOTE=toefer;1650805]

Originally Posted by bigpapy

I was wayyyyy off.



Actually, maybe not much, but I thought haga was the present subjunctive? Wouldn't "will do" be hara (with an accent on the 2nd a)?

Spanish is weird, words can mean like 20 million different things. Ive been speaking it all my life and it still confuses me lol Even took 3 years of spanish in high school for the "Easy A"... I ended up with a couple Ds my last year lol

[PH3AR]

slept throu my spanish classes

[NJ_RAMS_FAN]

Originally Posted by metsfan1545d

¿Qué esperas que haga tu compañero/a de cuarto o apartamento?

ive tried like 5 translators and every time it comes back incoherent, its for an assignment in my spanish class and i havent a clue what it means

yea, What do you expect your roomate will do from a room or apartment? lol... that's what it actually says..but that's spanish sentence is missing a word. it spanish, it doesn't make sense..

[toef]

Originally Posted by melsbluespecv

yea, What do you expect your roomate will do from a room or apartment? lol... that's what it actually says..but that's spanish sentence is missing a word. it spanish, it doesn't make sense..

Well doesn't it technically say "roommate or apartment"?

[metsfan1545d]

it was a question on a online workbook my teacher assigned.

[Buffalo MX]

Originally Posted by metsfan1545d

¿Qué esperas que haga tu compañero/a de cuarto o apartamento?

ive tried like 5 translators and every time it comes back incoherent, its for an assignment in my spanish class and i havent a clue what it means

Regards from Mexico!!!!

word by word trasalation : What do you expect from your roomate to do?

need to know the idea on the complete sentence/phrase to compose the sentence god/complete

[quexos]

Easy: what are you expecting from your apartment-mate or room-mate ? as in what do you expect him/her to do.

[FIDDYPOP]

Originally Posted by quexos

Easy: what are you expecting from your apartment-mate or room-mate ? as in what do you expect him/her to do.

Exactly.