Word
Dadle la vuelta al pescado con la espátula para que no se rompa.
Meaning
Turn the fish over with the spatula so that it doesn’t break.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Dadle la vuelta al pescado con la espátula para que no se rompa.
con
with
al
to the
no
not
el pescado
the fish
Questions & Answers about Dadle la vuelta al pescado con la espátula para que no se rompa.
Why does the sentence start with dadle?
Dadle is an affirmative command.
It is made of:
- dad = you all give / you all do (the vosotros imperative of dar)
- le = to it / to him / to her
In this sentence, though, darle is part of the idiom darle la vuelta a algo, which means to turn something over or to flip something.
So dadle here is basically turn it over, addressed to more than one person.
Is dadle specifically Spain Spanish?
Yes, very much so.
Dad is the vosotros command form, and vosotros is the normal informal plural you in Spain.
So this sentence sounds like Spain Spanish because it is talking to more than one person informally.
Other possibilities would be:
- dale la vuelta... = say it to one person informally
- denle la vuelta... = say it to you all in Latin America, or to you all formally
What exactly does darle la vuelta mean?