Learn the lyrics to the Christmas hymn "¿Qué niño es este?" ("What child is this?").
This song asks who is the child in Mary's arms and answers that he is the Christ.
Listen to the song. Read the lyrics and study the vocabulary. Notice that el coro means the chorus. Read the lesson on the verbs. Finally, sing along with the video.
En brazos de María
Pastores velan, ángeles
Le cantan melodías?
al dormir : upon sleeping (click here to learn more about al + infinitive)
el pastor : shepherd
velar : to watch over
Coro:
El es el Cristo, el Rey,
Pastores, ángeles cantad;
Venid, venid a él,
al hijo de María.
el Rey : the King
¿Por qué en humilde establo así
El niño es hoy nacido?
Por todo injusto pecador
Su amor ha florecido.
humilde : modest
el establo : stable
así : as such; like this
nacido : born
injusto : unjust; wrong
pecador : (noun) sinner; (adjective) sinful
-Coro-
Traed ofrendas en su honor
El rey como el labriego,
Al Rey de reyes, Salvador,
Un trono levantemos.
la ofrenda : offering
el labriego : farmer, laborer
Salvador : Savior
el trono : throne
levantar : to raise; to lift
-Coro-
Verbs in the affirmative imperative tense
In this song you will notice that several of the verbs are commands in the third-person plural (vosotros).
cantad <-- cantar : sing
venid <-- venir: come
traed <-- traer : bring
The imperative tense is very easy to form for vosotros. When you are giving a command or directions to a group of people whom you know well, you drop the r from the infinitive form and add a d.
Example
cantar (the infinitive form)
--> canta-
--> cantad (the command form)
You may have also noticed the ending of levantemos in the verse: "Un trono levantemos." This is the imperative form of nosotros.
Levantar is an -ar verb. In the nosotros form of the imperative tense,
-ar verbs end in -emos
and
-er and -ir verbs end in -amos.
Thus, the verse "Un trono levantemos" means "Let's raise a throne."
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