Sentence examples of "cena" in Spanish with translation "supper"

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He preparado la cena ayer. I cooked supper last night.
Yo estudié antes de la cena. I studied before supper.
Mamá está preparando la cena ahora. Mom is fixing supper now.
Ahora ella está ocupada preparando la cena. She is busy preparing supper now.
Hice que mi hijo preparara la cena. I got my son to cook supper.
Perdón si no cociné bien la cena. Forgive me if I haven't cooked supper well.
Mi madre está ocupada preparando la cena. My mother is busy cooking supper.
Se sirve la cena a las nueve y media. Supper is served at nine-thirty.
Mi madre había llevado dos horas preparando la cena cuando llegué a casa. My mother had been cooking supper for two hours when I got home.
Sólo un verdadero artista consiente a cantar para su cena, porque sabe que de esa manera sabrá mejor. Only a true artist would agree to sing for his supper because he knows it would taste better that way.
Una vez un hombre le preguntó a Diógenes cuál era el momento adecuado para la cena, y él le respondió: "Si usted es un hombre rico, cuando le apetezca, y si usted es un pobre hombre, cuando pueda." A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
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