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música

English translation of música

music

Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.


Example sentences using: música

Me gusta la música clásica.

English translation of Me gusta la música clásica.

I like classical music.

In Spanish, gustar commonly expresses preferences and literally translates as 'it pleases me'. In English we would say 'I like'. So 'Me gusta' translates to 'I like'.

Josue está tocando música.

English translation of Josue está tocando música.

Josue is playing music.

The word está is a present tense form of estar to indicate that an action is taking place now adding on the present participle, tocando (playing), forms the present progressive tense.

La música es muy relajante.

English translation of La música es muy relajante.

The music is very relaxing.

The definite article 'la' (the) and the adjective 'relajante' (relaxing) are being used to describe the noun 'música' (music), according to the common general structure of noun phrases in Spanish.

Voy a estudiar con música.

English translation of Voy a estudiar con música.

I am going to study with music.

In Spanish, 'Voy a' is a phrase to express an intention or future action. It means 'I am going to'. So 'Voy a estudiar con música' can literally translate to 'I am going to study with music'. This is an instance of the near future construction.

No puedo concentrarme sin música.

English translation of No puedo concentrarme sin música.

I can't concentrate without music.

'No puedo' is a negative way to express the ability or possibility to do something. It equates to 'I can't'. And 'sin' means 'without'. Putting it together, we get 'I can’t concentrate without music'.

Escuchemos música aquí

English translation of Escuchemos música aquí

Let's listen to music here.

In Spanish, verb projunctions create an informal suggestion or proposal like 'lets do something'. Escuchemos comes from verb escuchar which means listen.

English translation of ¿Tienes alguna música recomendada?

Do you have any recommended music?

Question sentences commonly start with an upside-down question mark in Spanish and close with a question mark. ¿Tienes means ‘Do you have’ depends on subject pronoun ‘You’ and describes possession of Tú such as ‘you have’ in English.

Descargué música en mi móvil.

English translation of Descargué música en mi móvil.

I downloaded music to my mobile.

Verbs in the past - Descargué - takes y to show the completeness of an action in past as it was final and cannot be altered the same equate to ‘I have downloaded’.

Su pasión por la música es grande.

English translation of Su pasión por la música es grande.

His/Her passion for music is great/big.

Simply comes 'su' which means 'his' or 'her'. 'Pasión por' denotes you hold fondness/ appreciation deeply to something remarks as passion for 'pasión por'

El volumen de la música está demasiado alto.

English translation of El volumen de la música está demasiado alto.

The music's volume is too high.

In Spanish, we commonly use the structure 'el de la' to indicate possession as a replacement for the 's structure that exists in English. Paraeding that - The volume of the music 'el volumen de la música' could as well state as 'music's volume' or 'the volume belonging to the music'.