スペイン語日記翻訳【54】
過去に手に買うものを書いて、買い物に行って家について買い忘れた時の自分への失望感…
Una vez, en el pasado, escribí lo que tenía que comprar en la palma de la mano. Fui de compras, pero al volver a casa me di cuenta de que lo había olvidado… y me sentí decepcionado conmigo mismo.
解説
### 📝 Sentence 1:
**Una vez, en el pasado, escribí lo que tenía que comprar en la palma de la mano.**#### 🌟 Meaning:
“Once, in the past, I wrote what I had to buy on the palm of my hand.”
A nostalgic recollection of a simple, tactile memory—writing a shopping list directly on the skin, perhaps out of necessity or spontaneity.#### 🧠 Grammar & Syntax:
– **Una vez, en el pasado**
– *Una vez* = adverbial phrase meaning “once.”
– *En el pasado* = prepositional phrase reinforcing the temporal setting.
– Together, they form a **temporal frame**, anchoring the action in a completed past.– **Escribí**
– First-person singular of *escribir* in the **pretérito** (simple past).
– Indicates a **completed action** with a clear endpoint.– **Lo que tenía que comprar**
– A **relative clause** introduced by *lo que* (“what” or “that which”).
– *Tenía que comprar* = **imperfect tense** of *tener que* + infinitive.
– *Tenía* (imperfect) suggests obligation or necessity that existed over a span of time.
– *Que comprar* = verbal phrase meaning “had to buy.”
– This clause functions as the **direct object** of *escribí*.– **En la palma de la mano**
– Prepositional phrase indicating **location**.
– *La palma de la mano* = “the palm of the hand,” a poetic and intimate image.
– The specificity of *la palma* adds a tactile, almost childlike quality.#### 💫 Stylistic Note:
The juxtaposition of *pretérito* (“escribí”) and *imperfecto* (“tenía”) subtly evokes a moment of action within a broader habitual or contextual frame—like a snapshot within a memory.—
### 🧵 Overall Narrative Flow:
This passage is a miniature story—a moment of human fallibility rendered with tenderness. The grammar choices (pretérito, imperfecto, pluscuamperfecto) aren’t just functional; they’re expressive. They allow the speaker to move through time, from intention to action to realization to emotion.