Word
De niño me daba terror hablar en público, pero ahora lo disfruto más.
Meaning
As a child I was terrified of speaking in public, but now I enjoy it more.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Breakdown of De niño me daba terror hablar en público, pero ahora lo disfruto más.
yo
I
hablar
to speak
ahora
now
más
more
Questions & Answers about De niño me daba terror hablar en público, pero ahora lo disfruto más.
In de niño, what does de mean, and why not cuando era niño?
De niño is an idiomatic way to say “as a child / when I was a kid.”
- Literally, de can mean “of/from”, but here it’s more like “in the period of being a child.”
- De niño and cuando era niño both mean roughly the same thing and are both correct.
Nuance:
- De niño sounds a bit more compact and is very common in both Latin America and Spain.
- Cuando era niño is slightly more explicit, but stylistically they’re interchangeable in most contexts.
If the speaker is a woman, should it be de niña instead of de niño?
In me daba terror, who is the subject, and what is me doing there?