Spanish Kids Song/Canción Infantil: Un Patito (The Little Duckling)
Website design By BotEap.com“Un Patito” (Little Duckling) is a simple children’s song in Spanish, which makes it a good place to start brushing up on your Spanish. One of the special memories of my childhood is of my mother singing “Un Patito” to me, of us singing it together, of singing it with my sister, in many different times and places. Even as an adult, I find myself singing it from time to time, when no kids are around, simply because it’s a happy thing to do.
Website design By BotEap.comLyrics (Lyrics) of “El Patito” in Spanish:
Website design By BotEap.comLyrics of “A Duckling”:
Website design By BotEap.com1. I have a duckling
Website design By BotEap.com2. That my mom bought me
Website design By BotEap.com3. He knows how to sing, he knows how to dance
Website design By BotEap.com4. And when the sun goes down
Website design By BotEap.com5. The sad duckling is
Website design By BotEap.com6. Don’t come
Website design By BotEap.com7. And the poor thing will get sick
Website design By BotEap.comNote: In line 7, my mother always substituted “will get sick” for the fatal “will die” from the original song; (which means to die).
Website design By BotEap.comHere is a close general translation:
Website design By BotEap.comThe general translation from Spanish to English is made to sound like a native English speaker, to give you an idea of the feeling, the mood, the meaning of the original piece. Some translations are made to sound poetic in the second language, with the end result varying greatly from the original. This translation is very close to Spanish.
Website design By BotEap.com“The Duckling” lyrics
Website design By BotEap.com1. I have a duckling
Website design By BotEap.com2. That my mother bought me.
Website design By BotEap.com3. He knows how to sing and he knows how to dance.
Website design By BotEap.com4. When the sun goes down,
Website design By BotEap.com5. The duckling gets sad.
Website design By BotEap.com6. Loses appetite, no longer eats,
Website design By BotEap.com7. And the poor thing gets sick.
Website design By BotEap.comHere is the word-for-word translation:
Website design By BotEap.comA translation with word-for-word correspondence sounds terrible, because the way we express ourselves in different languages varies. However, it is a worthwhile exercise if you want to learn the structure and expression of sentences in Spanish. Practicing this type of exercise will help you, when you want to translate something backwards; from English to Spanish.
Website design By BotEap.comLyrics [lyrics] of [of] “A [one] duckling [duckling]”:
Website design By BotEap.com1 one [one] duckling [duckling] I’ve got [have] me [I]
Website design By BotEap.com2 What [which] medium [my] breast [mother] me [for me] understand [bought]
Website design By BotEap.com3. knows [it knows] sing [to sing], to know [it knows] bail [to dance],
Website design By BotEap.com4. And [And] when [when] a [itself] put [puts] the [the] I usually [sun]
Website design By BotEap.com5. The [the] duckling [duckling] sad [sad] it is [is]
Website design By BotEap.com6.Not [no] I like it[eat] Already[anymore]
Website design By BotEap.com7. And [and] the [the] poor [poor little one] a [itself]ill [becomes sick]
Website design By BotEap.comTo truly enjoy the Spanish children’s song “Un Patito”, you would have to listen to it in my mother’s happy singsong voice. However, I hope that these lyrics and translations are helpful in improving your command of Spanish.