A new baby
| Spanish | English |
|---|
| el sexo | sex (of a baby, on a form) |
| la paternidad | fatherhood |
| el bautizo | christening |
| la comunión | (First) Communion |
El sexo is the everyday word for a baby's sex, and the box on an official form:
A father's leave is usually called la baja por paternidad, built like la baja por maternidad:
Christenings and First Communions
Many Spanish families still celebrate el bautizo and, at about eight or nine, la primera comunión. A child usually hace the Communion:
Communions are often big family parties, with a meal, a restaurant and presents:
Telling off, and swearing it's true
Reñir changes e to i in some forms, like pedir: riño, riñes, riñó, riñeron, but reñimos, reñí.
Jurar usually takes a que clause, or the pronoun lo for something already said. Like any object pronoun, lo goes before the conjugated verb: te lo juro.
Passing it on
Contagiar is to pass on an illness, or a mood. The person who catches it is an object pronoun (me, te, le, nos, os, les):
With a mood, the mood itself is often the subject:
