Stopping to listen to / street musicians

[pyrosarco]

I am working on a writing assignment about "una cita ideal" and I want to say "Then I would take her hand and we would walk through the streets stopping to listen to street musicians."

This is what I have:

Entonces yo tomaría su mano y caminaríamos por las calles

but I am confused as how to say "stopping." Should I use parar or detener? And how would I conjugate the very? I feel like it should be in the form of -idad like pararidad or something? Am I completely off base?

My other question is: Is there a term for street musicians?

I am really more concerned about the agreement of the verb "stopping" though.

Thanks!

 

[greenheyes]

How about: " parándonos para escuchar a los músicos callejeros".

Deteniéndonos.. would be OK too.

There´s no special word for street musicians. Any help??

 

[Asol07]

"Then I would take her hand and we would walk through the streets stopping to listen to street musicians."

"Entonces, tomaría su mano y caminaríamos por las calles, deteniéndonos a escuchar a los músicos de la calle".

"Parar" is ok, but i would use it like in "Stop the car!" --> "Para el carro!".

And "pararidad", with all due respect, is totally incorect.

 

[pyrosarco]

Thanks so much!

parándonos - Deteniéndonos

Could you explain why the verbs are conjugated as such or point me to a thread about it? I have never seen suffixes like that before.

Thanks again.

@Asol07 it was just a guess. -- pararidad that is. lol

 

[greenheyes]

They are gerunds: -ar verbs, hablar..hablANDO, parar...parANDO
-er verbs, entender..entendIENDO, coser...cosIENDO

In the example you gave , the verbs are reflexive (pararSE, detenerSE) so we add NOS to the end of the gerund. Have a look in GRAMMAR. OK?

 

[Asol07]

Well, I suppose you know gerunds:

Parar - Parando (Stop - Stopping)
Detener - Deteniendo (The same)
Comer - Comiendo (Eat - Eating)

"Estoy comiendo" (I am eating)
"Estamos parando" (We are stopping)

Your phrase uses a gerund, "stopping", that is why we used "deteniendo".

"Nos" is just because we are talking about "nosotros - we".

"Deteniéndonos" (If you just use "deteniendo" no one will know who you are talking about, you have to add that "complemento" (direct and indirect object???) to make it clear)

"Deteniéndome" (Yo - I)
"Deteniéndonos" (Nosotros - We)
"Deteniéndose" (El/Ella - He/She)

Hope it helps.

 

[pyrosarco]

Yes that helped, a lot. Much thanks.

I was just being thrown by the extra ending added to the gerund. xD