4.2- Relations with Parents Flashcards
(34 cards)
Attitudes
Las actitudes
To question/ challenge authority
Cuestionar la autoridad
Pedestal authority
La autoridad paterna
To rebel against authority
Rebelarse contra la autoridad
Parental permissiveness
La permisividad paterna
Lenient, tolerant parents
Los padres indulgentes
Punishment, to punish
El castigo, castigar
Petty rules
Las reglillas
Antisocial behavior
El comportamiento antisocial
To swear, use bad language
Soltar palabrotas
To make a show of bad manners
Mostrarse mal educado/a
To cause a row, kick up a fuss
Montar, armar un follón
To quarrel
Reńir
To question everything
Ponerlo todo en la tela de juicio
To come home in the small hours
Llegar de madrugada
To want to get one’s own way
Querer salirse con la suya
To be unable to get on with one’s father/ mother
No poder entenderse con su padre/ madre
His/ her mother is old- fashioned
Su madre es una antigualla
His/ her father is an old fussy- duddy
Su padre es un chapado a la antigua
Narrow- minded
Estrecho/a de miras
My parents insist I…
Mis padres insisten en que yo (+subj)
To get in one’s nerves
Fastidiar a alguien
To make a lot of fuss over nothing, exaggerate
Buscar cinco pies al gato
To hear the same old thing day after day
Escuchar todos los días el mismo rollo
