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perdido

estas perdido, mi amigo?

2 years ago

perdido info.

Tips to remember ‘perdido’:
– Link the word ‘perdido’ to the English word ‘perished,’ which also starts with ‘per’ and carries the sense of something gone or irretrievably lost.
– Imagine a person looking for their dog, saying, “Mi perro está perdido!” (My dog is lost!), which may evoke a visual, memorable scenario.
– Associate ‘perdido’ with ‘lost’ by considering the ‘dido’ in ‘perdido’ as if asking, “Did I lose something?”

Explanations:
– ‘Perdido’ is the past participle of ‘perder,’ meaning ‘to lose’ in Spanish. It’s used to describe something or someone that is lost or cannot be found.

Other words that mean the same thing:
– Extraviado (strayed or misplaced)
– Desaparecido (disappeared)
– Ausente (absent in the sense of missing)

Alternate meanings or slang:
– In Latin American countries, ‘perdido’ can also mean hopelessly in love or infatuated.
– ‘Perdido’ can figuratively refer to someone who’s wasted or who’s a hopeless case, similar to saying someone is “a lost cause.”
– In some contexts, it might mean off track or out of place.

Examples of sentences that use ‘perdido’:
– Estoy perdido sin ti. (I am lost without you.)
– He perdido las llaves de mi casa. (I have lost the keys to my house.)
– Este lugar parece un paraíso perdido. (This place looks like a lost paradise.)
– El equipo estuvo perdido durante todo el partido. (The team was off track during the entire match.)
– Te busqué por horas, pensé que estabas perdido. (I looked for you for hours, I thought you were lost.)
– Se han perdido muchas tradiciones con el tiempo. (Many traditions have been lost over time.)

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