I'm freezing my nuts out here. That sounds natural in English. What would I say in Spanish? "Mis huevos están helados aqui" ??
freezing my nuts
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Hmmm. Thanks.
Otra opción, no tan literal, algo más basta:
"se me encoge el rabo aquí afuera"
"se me encoge el rabo aquí afuera"
¿al trasero? 
No precisamente...
rabo es una palabra para designar el pene en España
No precisamente... rabo es una palabra para designar el pene en España
ampurdan said:¿al trasero?
rabo es una palabra para designar el pene en España
...eso no lo sabía...nosotros le decimos rabo al trasero (bueno lo llamamos de diferentes maneras, claro)...debe ser porque a la "cola" de los animales también se le llama "rabo".Otra forma de decir "se me congelan los huevos", es: "se me congelan los gemelos"
I'm not in doubt, I'm just such a beginner that the "se me" part is not familiar. I'm still learning, but trying to be more colorful than just "hace mucho frio."
Ron in LA,
"Se me" accounts for a pronominal verb.
If you think over, you are not the one who freeze your nuts.
In Spanish, "los huevos" is the subject of the sentence.
"mis huevos se congelan": "my nuts are freezing". It is a pronominal construction, the nuts are not freezing themselves but something is freezing them. I don't specify what is it. So I use the pronominal construction: "congelarse".
Yo me congelo
Tú te congelas
Él/ella se congela
Nosotros nos congelamos
Vosotros os congeláis
Ellos se congelan --> Mis huevos se congelan.
Furthermore, in Spanish we don't use possesives as much as you do in English, we express the idea with the inderect object pronoun (me/te/le/nos/os/les).
"Mis huevos se congelan".
"Se me congelan los huevos". And that's the most common and spontaneous way to say it, sorry.
For further information about "se me" search the threads, I think there are lots of them dealing with this subject, which is particularly difficult for English-speaking Spanish learners.
Un saludo!
"Se me" accounts for a pronominal verb.
If you think over, you are not the one who freeze your nuts.
In Spanish, "los huevos" is the subject of the sentence.
"mis huevos se congelan": "my nuts are freezing". It is a pronominal construction, the nuts are not freezing themselves but something is freezing them. I don't specify what is it. So I use the pronominal construction: "congelarse".
Yo me congelo
Tú te congelas
Él/ella se congela
Nosotros nos congelamos
Vosotros os congeláis
Ellos se congelan --> Mis huevos se congelan.
Furthermore, in Spanish we don't use possesives as much as you do in English, we express the idea with the inderect object pronoun (me/te/le/nos/os/les).
"Mis huevos se congelan".
"Se me congelan los huevos". And that's the most common and spontaneous way to say it, sorry.
For further information about "se me" search the threads, I think there are lots of them dealing with this subject, which is particularly difficult for English-speaking Spanish learners.
Un saludo!