In these sentences, did I use the correct conjugation for, "Moved"? I used "nos mudabamos"

Question

Esta es la oración:

Mi habitacíon es rosa. Cuando nos la primera nos mudabamos, mi hermano no quiere la habitacion rosa, asi que tomado/(tomaba) eso habitacion.

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My room is pink. When we first moved, my brother did not want the pink room, so I took that room.

I am a beginner, so please forgive the sentences that are most likely riddled with mistakes. I find conjugation difficult since there are many more tenses than in english. If there is a better way to say the sentences above, please let me know.

Answer 1

Leaving all other mistakes aside, let's concentrate on the verb tense.

Generally speaking, the perfective aspect indicates completed actions and the imperfective indicates ongoing actions (incomplete or recurring). In this case, you are talking about a completed action: you moved and, as a result of that, you were in a new house, where the rest of the action happened (your brother did not like one of the rooms and so on). So you have to use the perfective aspect: mudamos rather than mudábamos.

As for the other verbs, you have to use the perfective too for the third verb (took), which is an instantaneous action and, therefore, completed as soon as it is started. But the second verb (want) is tricky; you can consider that it is also an instantaneous action (there were two rooms, your brother said no to one of them, and then you took it), or an ongoing action (your brother had been complaining about that room for some time and at some point you decided to take it). So you can actually use the perfective or the imperfective.

Putting all together, and fixing the translation a bit, you have these two choices:

1. Mi habitación es rosa. Cuando nos mudamos, mi hermano no quiso la habitación rosa, así que la tomé yo.
2. Mi habitación es rosa. Cuando nos mudamos, mi hermano no quería la habitación rosa, así que la tomé yo.

Answer 2

You wrote:

1) ENGLISH:

"My room is pink. When we first moved my brother didn't want the pink room. So, I took that room."

2) SPANISH (TRANSLITERATION FROM ENGLISH POINT 1):

"Mi cuarto/alcoba es rosada. Cuando nosotros primero nos mudamos mi hermano no quería el cuarto/la alcoba rosada. Entonces, yo tomé ese cuarto/esa alcoba.

3) SPANISH (TRANSLATION FROM POINT 1):

"Como cuando nos mudamos mi hermano vió que las paredes de uno de los cuartos/ las alcobas eran rosadas, a él no le gusto. Y ahora... ese es mi cuarto"

4) ENGLISH (TRANSLITERATED FROM SPANISH POINT 3):

"Because when we moved my brother saw that one of the rooms had pink walls, he didn't like it. Now... that is my room."

NOTE:

The reason that I did not translate the verbal conjugation of take: took in POINT 1) which means coger/tomar/agarrar and I used the verbal conjugation of be (ser/estar): es [see POINT 3)] which in Spanish means is [see POINT 4)]. It is because, in some countries, those verbs mean having sex. So...

P.S.*

— Quiso is the past tense verbal conjugation to the verb want and is used in sentences In Spanish.

— Quería is the past tense verbal conjugation to the verb want and is used in clauses.

—The verb gustar which means like in English. It is more common as opposed to want.

*[Post Script thats in English equivalent to P.D which is Post Data in Spanish. It is another way of saying btw in English phone texting which means by the way or a propós in Spanish]