Reporting stolen wedding ring: Describing your wedding ring

💬 Perdone is the polite form for strangers and officials. With a friend it becomes perdona.

🇪🇸 This is the natural way to get the attention of the officer at a police-station desk before stating your business.

💬 denunciar here simply means filing a report with the police. It doesn't carry the harsh 'denounce' sense English suggests.

🇪🇸 In Spain you report thefts at a comisaría "police station". Insurers usually won't pay out without the denuncia "police report" this produces.

💬 Quiero plus a basic verb is a handy way to say what you've come to do. Swap the end: Quiero denunciar una pérdida "I want to report a loss".

🇪🇸 This is the opening line at a comisaría "police station" of the Policía Nacional. Say it at the front desk and they'll take it from there.

💬 Spanish usually says what was taken "from" someone with a small word in front of the verb: here le means "from you". With me instead it becomes Me han robado el móvil "My phone has been stolen".

💬 de links two nouns where English just puts them side by side, and the main thing comes first: a ring of wedding. Same pattern: vestido de boda "wedding dress".

💬 ¿Cómo es...? asks what something is like or looks like, not how it's doing. Swap in anything: ¿Cómo es tu bolso? "What's your bag like?"

💬 To say what something is made of, use es de plus the material. Es de plata "It's silver" and es de oro blanco "it's white gold" work the same way.

💬 Fino means thin or slim here, not "fine" in the sense of good. For a chunky ring you'd say grueso "thick".