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El ejemplo es No pude comprar la camisa que quería porque estaba agotada.
The translation is I couldn't buy the shirt I wanted because there was no stock or because it was out of stock.
So here, agotada, which agrees with camisa, then is used as out of stock.
Genial, buen trabajo.
Ahora vamos a ver nuestro siguiente chiste.
And we level up a bit and for the next joke we need some very basic knowledge of chemistry.
But nothing too fancy, don't worry.
And what I like about this joke is that now we don't have a play on words.
But the funny bit is in the pronunciation.
So listen carefully.
¿Cómo se despiden los químicos?
How do chemists say goodbye?
Well, the pun is ácido, un placer.
Ácido means acid, a substance that may dissolve other materials.
However, ha sido also sounds close to ha sido, as in, ha sido un placer.
It has been a pleasure.
Now, if my accent would have been different and I would have pronounced the zu sound as si, this joke will also work.
Ha sido un placer.
So, what I really like about this joke is that it proves that native speakers are going to understand you whether or not you pronounce the sound th.
Es genial, ¿no crees?