cantidad |
1. n-f. amount | |
2. n-f. quantity | |
3. n-f. figure | |
4. n-f. (colloquial Spain) plenty | |
5. adv. (colloquial) like hell; a hell of a lot; shedloads | |
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 | |
alimento |
1. n-m. (slightly, formal) food (solid substance that can be consumed) | |
2. n-m. nourishment | |
3. n-m. (in the plural) alimony, maintenance | |
4. v. first-person singular present indicative of alimentar | |
alimentar |
1. v. to feed (give food to eat) | |
que |
1. conj. that | |
Él dice que está triste. - He says that he is sad. | |
2. conj. than | |
Llego más tarde que tú. - I am arriving later than you. | |
3. conj. (indicating a reason); because, for | |
¡Ve más lento, que es resbaloso! - Slow down, (for) it is slippery! | |
4. conj. (indicating desire or permission); may (used with the subjunctive) | |
Que te vaya bien. - May it go well for you. | |
Que Dios me perdone. - May God forgive me. | |
5. pron. who; that | |
la estrella que está en la película - the star who is in the movie | |
6. pron. that; whom | |
la mujer con la que yo hablé - the woman with whom I spoke | |
7. pron. that; which | |
la casa que yo quiero - the house that I want | |
8. prep. than | |
9. prep. like, as | |
10. part. to | |
cabe |
1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative of caber | |
caber |
1. v. to fit, enter (to be able to be contained (by something; regardless of whether space or volume remains)) | |
Quise tomar prestados los pantalones de mi hermana pequeña, pero no me cabían. - I wanted to borrow my little sister's trousers, but they didn't fit me. | |
2. v. to traverse, pass through or across (a way, path, door, hole, opening, mouth, orifice, etc.) | |
3. v. to be held or contained (to be held inside (something) or passed through (regardless of whether space or volume remains)) | |
4. v. to have, hold, should be (in certain phrases) | |
No os quepa duda... - Make no mistake about it... | |
Cabe señalar que... - It should be noted that... | |
No cabe comparación entre las dos cosas. - The two things aren't comparable. | |
5. v. to be acceptable, accepted, permitted, permissible, allowable, etc. | |
6. v. to be possible | |
Cabe eso. - There is room for it. | |
en |
1. prep. in, at, on | |
Estoy en casa. - I'm at home. | |
Estoy sentado en la computadora. - I'm sitting at the computer. | |
en esta página - on this page | |
en la caja en la mesa - in the box on the table | |
2. prep. in (a time) | |
en la antigüedad - in antiquity | |
en 1999 - in 1999 | |
3. prep. in (a language) | |
No conozco esta palabra en francés. - I don't know this word in French. | |
en todos los idiomas - in all languages | |
4. prep. used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English | |
Pienso en ti. - I'm thinking of you. | |
5. prep. in (in various expressions) | |
en el sentido - in the sense | |
en nuestro afán - in our eagerness | |
un |
1. art. a | |
2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one | |
cazo |
1. n-m. a kind of large saucepan or saucepot, wider at top than at bottom | |
2. n-m. ladle | |
3. n-m. (colloquial) clumsy person | |
4. n-m. (colloquial) pimp | |
5. n-m. (climbing) jug | |
6. v. first-person singular present indicative of cazar | |
cazar |
1. v. to hunt | |
2. v. (football) to catch (a ball, said especially of the goalkeeper) | |