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Oct 08, 2015 - 01:49 PM
I think you may be trying too hard to fit the Spanish word-for-word with English. It often doesn't work like that. The sense of para in these examples is that it links one verb with another imparting the sense that the first action is carried out for the purpose of causing or permitting the second action. In the example above, the speaker is going to wait for the friends, because the friends are needed for some reason before he/she can order. I think Fluenz would translate para in this example simply as "to", the problem being that "to" has multiple meanings in English, including imparting purpose. It is this latter meaning of "to" that translates in Spanish as para.