Meaning
Esto es muy fácil de hacer.
Primary Function
Expressing confidence
Communicative Purpose
To reassure someone that a task is easy and can be done effortlessly.
Pattern
Esto es; pan comido
Core Structure
Esto es; pan comido
Função primária
Expressing confidence
Propósito comunicativo
To reassure someone that a task is easy and can be done effortlessly.
Situações de gatilho
When encouraging someone to do a task, when explaining that a job is simple, when reassuring someone about a difficult situation.
Contextos
Informal conversations, encouragement, reassurance.
Padrão
Esto es; pan comido
Estrutura central
Esto es; pan comido
Slots de substituição
Este es an idiomatic expression and should not be modified.
Colocados típicos
- fácil
- sencillo
- niño.
Substituições comuns
- Esto es coser y cantar (same meaning
- different idiom).
Erros comuns
Translating it literally as 'This is eaten bread'.
Similar / contraste
Esto es coser y cantar, Esto es un juego de niños.
Interferências
None.
Família do chunk
- Es pan comido
- Es un juego de niños
- Coser y cantar.
Nuance
It implies that the task is so easy that it is like 'eating bread'.
Efeito pragmático
Reassures and encourages the listener.
Dica de memória
Easy as bread.
Upgrade path
Esto es coser y cantar.
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