| quién |
| 1. pron. who?, whom?; (with “de”) whose? | |
| ¿Con quién hablo? - With whom am I speaking? | |
| ¡Quién lo hubiera creído! - Who would have believed it!? | |
| ¿De quién es este libro? - Whose book is this? | |
| ¿Quién enseña la clase? - Who teaches the class? | |
| ¿Quién carajo es Kevin? - Who the hell is Kevin? | |
| No sabe quién ha llamado - He doesn't know who has called | |
| 2. pron. (followed by a subjunctive clause in the imperfect or pluperfect tense) if only; I wish | |
| ¡Quién tuviera veinte años! - How I wish I was twenty! | |
| ¡Quién hubiera tocado la lotería! - If only I'd won the lottery! | |
| os |
| 1. pron. you, to you, for you; dative and accusative of vosotros | |
| ha |
| 1. v. third-person singular present indicative of haber | |
| haber |
| 1. v. (auxiliary) to have | |
| He trabajado muy duro durante este mes. - I have worked very hard during this month. | |
| Mi hermanito me pidió más chocolate, pero ya le había dado demasiado. - My little brother asked me for more chocolate, but I had already given him too much. | |
| 2. v. (obsolete) to hold, to possess | |
| 3. v. (impersonal, in third person singular only) to exist; “there is”, “there are” (hay); “there was”, “there were” (había) | |
| No hay muchas personas aquí. - There aren't many people here. | |
| En el cofre había un libro antiguo. - In the chest there was an antique book. | |
| 4. v. (dated, or formal) to have to (+ de + infinitive) | |
| 5. v. (Used only in the third-person existential form) to be necessary (+ que + infinitive) | |
| Hay que proteger el mundo. - It is necessary to protect the world. | |
| 6. v. used to denote a past obligation | |
| Haberla llamado. - You ought to have phoned her. | |
| 7. n-m. asset | |
| 8. n-m. history | |
| 9. n-m. credit side | |
| dado |
| 1. n-m. (gaming) a die or dice | |
| 2. Participle. past participle of dar | |
| dar |
| 1. v. to give, to give out | |
| 2. v. to hand over | |
| 3. v. to hit | |
| Me han dado en la cabeza. - They hit me on my head. | |
| 4. v. to emit | |
| 5. v. to produce | |
| 6. v. to perform | |
| 7. v. to consider | |
| Doy eso por menos que yo. - I consider that beneath me. | |
| Yo lo doy por muerto. - I consider him dead. | |
| 8. v. (indtr, con) to encounter; to find with effort | |
| Dimos con María. - We encountered Maria. | |
| Dimos con el edificio después de tres horas. - We finally found the building after three hours. | |
| 9. v. to hit upon | |
| 10. v. (indtr, a, .colloquial, intr=1) to press, activate | |
| darle al botón - to press the button | |
| 11. v. to ruin; mess up | |
| Me dio la noche - It ruined the night for me | |
| 12. v. to occur | |
| 13. v. to grow naturally | |
| El maíz se da en esta tierra. - Corn grows on this land. | |
| 14. v. to hit | |
| El coche se dio con/contra un árbol. - The car hit a tree. | |
| 15. v. to assume | |
| darse por vencido - to assume to be defeated | |
| darse por muerto - to assume to be dead | |
| 16. v. to pretend to be, to present oneself as though one were | |
| Se las da de enfermero pero nunca ha estudiado. - He pretends to be a nurse, but he's never studied. | |
| 17. v. to surrender | |
| ¿Te das? — Me doy. - Do you surrender? — I surrender. | |
| 18. v. to fuck (used with third person direct objects only) | |
| Vos solo te la das. - You just fuck her. | |
| Me quiero dar a José. - I want to fuck José. | |
| 19. v. to find someone sexually attractive (mostly to have a sexual encounter with) | |
| Le re doy. | |
| 20. v. to announce, predict | |
| Dan lluvia. - They announced rain. | |
| mal |
| 1. adj. (before the noun) apocopic form of malo bad; evil | |
| 2. adj. amiss, awry, off, wrong | |
| Me di cuenta de que algo estaba mal. - I realized something was amiss. | |
| 3. adv. badly, poorly, ill | |
| No hables mal de los muertos. - Don't speak ill of the dead. | |
| Qué mal. - Too bad. / That's too bad. | |
| 4. adv. awry, amiss, wrong, wrongly | |
| Tu plan maestro salió mal bastante rápido - Your master plan went awry pretty quickly. | |
| 5. adv. hard (functions as an adverb in Spanish but translates as an adjective in English) | |
| Estoy pasándolo mal con todo ahora mismo. - I'm just having a hard time with everything right now. | |
| 6. n-m. evil, harm; a bad thing or situation | |
| de mal en peor - from bad to worse | |
| 7. n-m. disease, illness, ailment | |
| ... le curaremos, si es que su mal tiene cura... - ... we shall cure him, if his ailment has a cure... | |
| 8. n-m. worse (substantive) | |
| para bien o para mal - for better or for worse | |
| de |
| 1. prep. of; 's; (used after the thing owned and before the owner) | |
| Constitución española de 1812 - Spanish constitution of 1812 | |
| la cola del perro - the dog’s tail | |
| 2. prep. from (with the source or provenance of or at) | |
| Soy de España. - I’m from Spain. | |
| agua de manantial - springwater | |
| 3. prep. of (expressing composition, substance) | |
| una mesa de madera - a wooden table | |
| 4. prep. about (concerning; with regard to) | |
| Están hablando del pasado. - They're talking about the past. | |
| tratarse de - to be about; to concern | |
| 5. prep. of, from (indicating cause) | |
| Murió de hambre. - He died of hunger. | |
| 6. prep. of (indicates a quality or characteristic) | |
| un hombre de fe - a man of faith | |
| 7. prep. from (with the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at) | |
| el vuelo de Miami a Chicago - the flight from Miami to Chicago | |
| 8. prep. of (indicates the subject or cause of the adjective) | |
| harto de - sick of; tired of | |
| 9. prep. from (with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of) | |
| Nos protege del frío. - It protects us from the cold. | |
| 10. prep. than (in certain phrases) | |
| más de - more than | |
| menos de - less than, fewer than | |
| 11. prep. (used to construct compound nouns (with attributive nouns)) | |
| campamento de verano - summer camp | |
| 12. prep. (followed by the infinitive) (indicates a conditional desire) | |
| De haberlo sabido, no lo habría dicho. - If I had known, I wouldn't have said it. | |
| 13. prep. indicates a time of day or period of someone's life | |
| de día - during the daytime | |
| de niño - as a child; during childhood | |
| 14. prep. (after a noun and before a verb) (indicates the purpose of an object) | |
| goma de mascar - chewing gum | |
| caña de pescar - fishing rod | |
| ojo |
| 1. n-m. eye | |
| Dora tiene (los) ojos azules. - Dora has blue eyes. | |
| 2. n-m. keyhole | |
| 3. n-m. caution | |
| hay que andar con ojo - you need to be cautious | |
| 4. interj. look! watch out! | |
| mal de ojo |
| 1. n-m. (idiom) evil eye (curse done by a malevolent gaze) | |
