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Cuando estoy cansada de estudiar biología, leo un cómic y sigo ampliando mi pasatiempo de coleccionar historias divertidas.
Meaning
When I am tired of studying biology, I read a comic and keep expanding my hobby of collecting funny stories.
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Breakdown of Cuando estoy cansada de estudiar biología, leo un cómic y sigo ampliando mi pasatiempo de coleccionar historias divertidas.
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Questions & Answers about Cuando estoy cansada de estudiar biología, leo un cómic y sigo ampliando mi pasatiempo de coleccionar historias divertidas.
Why is it cansada and not cansado?
Cansada agrees in gender with the person speaking.
- In Spanish, adjectives must match the gender and number of the noun or pronoun they describe.
- The implied subject of the sentence is yo (I), and the speaker is assumed to be female, so:
- Yo estoy cansada = I am tired (said by a woman).
- Yo estoy cansado = I am tired (said by a man).
If a man were saying the sentence, it would be:
Could I also say Cuando me canso de estudiar biología? What’s the difference from Cuando estoy cansada de estudiar biología?
Both are correct, but they sound slightly different:
Cuando estoy cansada de estudiar biología…
- Focuses on your state: when I am tired of studying biology.
- Describes a condition at a certain moment.
Cuando me canso de estudiar biología…
- Focuses on the process: when I get tired of studying biology.
- Emphasizes the moment you reach that tiredness.
In many everyday contexts, they’re almost interchangeable, and both would be understood as a habitual situation: Whenever I (get) tired of studying biology, I read a comic…
Why is it de estudiar biología and not por estudiar biología?