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hacer
     1. v. to do
           ¿Qué haces? - What are you doing?
           No sé que hago. - I don't know what I'm doing.
           Prefiero no hacerlo - I prefer not to do it.
     2. v. to make (something)
           Empecemos a hacer el pastel. - Let's start making the cake.
           Le gustaba hacer poemas placenteros. - She liked to make pleasant poems.
     3. v. to make (e.g. someone do something or feel a certain way.)
           No sabe cómo hacerla feliz. - He doesn't know how to make her happy.
           Lo hiciste llorar / Hiciste que llorara. - You made him cry.
     4. v. to be
           hace frío - it's cold
           hace calor - it's hot
           hace sol - it's sunny
           hace viento - it's windy
     5. v. to go (to release or excrete (urine, excrement))
           hacer pis, pipí, el número uno - to pee
           hacer caca, pupú, el número dos - to poo
     6. v. (ambitransitive, optionally with de) to play (a part in a play)
           hacer la princesa - to play the princess
           hacer de princesa - to play a princess
           hacer de Óscar - to play (the character of) Oscar
     7. v. to become; to get
           ¡Hazte vegetariano! - Become vegetarian!
           Me haré rico. - I will get rich.
           Ese niño se hizo todo un hombre. - That boy became a real man.
     8. v. to pretend being, play
           hacerse el tonto - to pretend being a fool, play the fool
           hacerse la víctima - to play the victim
           Háganse los sofisticados si quieren, igual nadie les cree. - You can pretend to be sophisticated if you want, no one believes you anyway.
     9. v. to play the fool
           No te hagás: vos sabés lo que hiciste. - Don't play the fool, you know what you did.
     10. v. to prep, adorn, do (a body part)
           hacerse las uñas - to do one's nails
     11. v. to get used to (chiefly in idioms)
           El cuerpo se hace a las fatigas. - The body gets used to tiredness.
           El caballo se hace al fuego. - A horse gets used to fire (for the Luminarias).
     12. v. to arrive (said of a certain time), be now
           Se hace tarde. - It's getting late.
           Se hicieron las doce. - It was now/suddenly 12 o'clock.
     13. n-m. task, action
           Nos quedan muchos haceres. - We have a lot of tasks left.
burla
     1. n-f. mockery, taunt, ridicule
     2. n-f. prank
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of burlar
     burlar
          1. v. to outwit, to outsmart, to circumvent, to trick, to deceive
          2. v. to circumvent, to evade, to cheat
                No puedes burlar a la muerte. - You cannot cheat death.
          3. v. to make fun of, to poke fun at, to mock, to ridicule, to jeer (+ de)
          4. v. to taunt, to tease (often uses de)
          5. v. to scoff, to scoff at (+ de)
          6. v. to deceive oneself (+ de)
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
algo
     1. pron. something, anything
           Algo imprevisto ocurrió. - Something unexpected happened.
           Me parece algo de interés. - It seems like something interesting to me.
           Eso es algo natural. - It's something natural.
     2. adv. rather, somewhat, kind of
           Me parece algo extraño. - It seems rather strange to me.
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