Spanish · Chapter 51 · Lesson 15 · Grammar primer
Proverbs: refranes
The traditional sayings that pepper real Spanish, with their English equivalents: Mas vale tarde que nunca, A quien madruga Dios le ayuda, No hay mal que por bien no venga, and how they are often shortened mid-sentence.
The short version
Half a refrán is enough
Because everyone knows them, Spanish speakers routinely say only the first half of a proverb and let it hang, exactly as an English speaker mutters 'when in Rome' and stops. Catching the point before the sentence finishes is a real marker of fluency. Learn each one whole, like a song lyric, and never tidy up the old grammar inside it.
A quien madruga Dios le ayuda.
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