la |
1. art. the | |
2. pron. accusative of ella, ello (when the antecedent's implied gender is feminine), and usted (when referring to a woman); her, it, you (formal) | |
3. pron. (impersonal neuter pronoun (accusative) in certain colloquial phrases): it, this | |
La sabe toda. - He/she knows everything (it all) | |
¡Dónde la viste! - Where have you seen this! | |
No te la creo. - I don't believe you. | |
4. n-m. (music) la (sixth note of the scale) | |
5. n-m. (music) A (the musical note or key) | |
presa |
1. n-f. reservoir, dam | |
2. n-f. piece of meat | |
3. n-f. portion or piece of food | |
4. n-f. capture | |
5. n-f. prey | |
6. n-f. stolen good | |
7. n-f. sluice (artificial passage of water) | |
8. n-f. weir | |
9. n-f. female equivalent of preso | |
10. adj. feminine singular of preso | |
preso |
1. adj. imprisoned | |
2. n-m. prisoner | |
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 | |
sus |
1. interj. c'mon; attaboy | |
2. det. plural of su; one's, his, her, its, their (with plural possessee) | |
3. det. (formal) your (with plural possessee) | |
su |
1. det. (before the noun) apocopic form of suyo his, her, its, one's, their, your (formal) | |
Vino con su amigo. (He came with his friend.) | |
Habló a sus hijas. (She spoke to her daughters.) | |
2. det. (used to express an approximate number): about, approximately | |
Pesa sus dos kilogramos. - It weighs its two kilograms. | |
3. det. (before the noun, formal) apocopic form of suyo t=your | |
brazos |
1. n. plural of brazo | |
brazo |
1. n-m. (anatomy) arm | |
2. n-m. branch, limb (of a tree) | |
se |
1. pron. (third person (also used for usted and ustedes) reflexive direct or indirect object) oneself, himself, herself, itself, yourself; each other; one another | |
Juan se lava. - Juan washes himself. | |
Juan se lava la cara. - Juan to himself washes the face. | |
Juan y María se aman. - Juan and María love each other. | |
2. pron. (used to convey the meaning of the English passive voice in the third person and with) usted and ustedes | |
¿Cómo se llama? - How do you call yourself? | |
Se dice que... - It says itself that... | |
Aquí se habla español - One speaks Spanish here, Spanish speaks itself here. | |
3. pron. (used instead of indirect object pronouns) le and les (before the direct object pronouns lo, la, los, or las) | |
El samaritano se las dio. - The Samaritan gave them to him. | |
4. v. misspelling of sé | |
hizo |
1. v. third-person singular preterite indicative of hacer | |
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. | |
más |
1. adv. more; -er (used to make comparisons) | |
Teresa es más lista que su hermano. - Teresa is more clever than her brother. | |
Hay más de cien personas aquí. - There are more than a hundred people here. | |
2. adv. (with definite article) most; -est (used to make superlatives) | |
Teresa es la más inteligente de la clase. - Teresa is the most intelligent in her class. | |
la cosa más grande - the biggest thing | |
3. adv. furthermore | |
4. adv. in addition | |
5. adv. else | |
algo más - something/anything else | |
nadie más - nobody else | |
6. adv. used with qué to express emphasis | |
¡Qué paisaje más hermoso! - What a pretty landscape! | |
¡Qué niño más tonto! - What a silly boy! | |
7. det. more, any more | |
8. det. most | |
9. conj. (mathematics) plus | |
uno más uno es igual a dos - one plus one is equal to two | |
fuerte |
1. adj. strong | |
2. adj. loud | |
3. adv. hard | |
4. n-m. fort, stronghold | |
5. n-m. strong point, forte, strength | |
6. n-m. (colloquial Chile Ecuador) booze | |
Y |
1. Letter. the 26th letter of the Spanish alphabet | |
2. conj. and | |
3. conj. (in names of number) and | |
setenta y seis - seventy-six | |
4. conj. (in arithmetic) plus, and | |
uno y uno son dos - one plus one is two | |
5. conj. (informal) well | |
¡Y por supuesto! - Well, of course! | |
6. conj. (informal) what about, how about, where is/are the | |
Pero, ¿y el concierto? ¿Ya no vamos? - But what about the concert? Are we not going anymore? | |
¿Y la niña? ¿Está a salvo? - How about the girl? Is she safe? | |
¿Y los archivos? Debo echarles un vistazo. - Where are the files? I should take a look at them. | |
le |
1. pron. to him, for him; dative of él | |
Mi mamá va a escribirle una carta. - My mom is going to write him a letter. | |
2. pron. to her, for her; dative of ella | |
Le dio un beso a Ana. - He gave Ana a kiss. | |
3. pron. to it, for it; dative of ello | |
¡Ponle esfuerzo! - Put some effort into it! | |
4. pron. to you, for you (formal); dative of usted | |
¿A usted le gustan los caballos? - Do you like horses? | |
5. pron. gender-neutral;neologism to them, for them (singular); dative of elle | |
Le diré que te llame. - I will tell them to call you. | |
medio |
1. adj. half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole) | |
media hora - half hour | |
media manzana - half an apple | |
2. adj. (inexact) half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole) | |
Medio Nueva York fue a los toros. - Half of New York went to the bullfight. | |
3. adj. middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives) | |
clase media - middle class | |
4. adj. average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values) | |
velocidad media - average speed | |
5. adj. average (of or related to a representative example of a group) | |
el español medio - the average Spaniard... your typical Spaniard... | |
6. adj. (art) tasteful, bourgeois (well decorated or executed but not sublime) | |
7. adj. (linguistics) mid (of or related to the position of vowel articulation between open and closed) | |
8. adj. (grammar) middle, mediopassive (of or related to grammatical voices neither active nor passive) | |
9. adj. (Chile, slang) impressive (extremely large or good) | |
¡Media bolsa! - Such a huge bag! What an awesome bag! Whatta bag! | |
10. adv. half, incompletely (indicating an action interrupted or only partially done) | |
medio vestido - half-dressed | |
11. adv. half, kind of (particularly used to partially soften negative descriptions) | |
Es medio idiota. - He’s a bit of an idiot... He’s kind of an idiot... | |
12. n-m. half (one of two equal parts of any whole) | |
13. n-m. (math) half (any fraction with a denominator of 2) | |
14. n-m. (historical) medio, half-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L) | |
15. n-m. (historical) medio (the usual container used to measure medios) | |
16. n-m. (historical, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) medio, half-real (a former coin) | |
17. n-m. (historical, Dominican Republic) medio, half-peso (a former coin) | |
18. n-m. (historical, Ecuador) medio, half-sucre (a former coin) | |
19. n-m. (historical, Panama) medio, half-balboa (a former coin) | |
20. n-m. (historical, Bolivia) medio, half-boliviano (a former coin) | |
21. n-m. (historical, Mexico) medio, half-octavo (a former coin equal to frac, 1, 16) real | |
22. n-m. (slang) medio (following decimalization, the notional amount of frac, 6, 1, 4) centavos as half of the notional amount of a frac, 1, 8-peseta real and | |
23. n-m. middle (the part of anything located halfway between its ends or extremes in time or along one dimension in space) | |
Se despertó en medio de la noche. - She awoke in the middle of the night. | |
24. n-m. (sports) midfielder, halfback (a person forming part of the middle or central defensive or offensive line, especially in soccer) | |
25. n-m. spiritualism synonym of médium, t=medium (a person claiming to the ability to communicate with the dead) | |
26. n-m. (politics, business) cut (the payment demanded to permit or facilitate some action, especially as a bribe) | |
27. n-m. (philosophy) middle term (the general category that appears in both premises and disappears in the conclusion) | |
28. n-m. (math, usually in the plural) mean (the second and third terms of a proportion) | |
29. n-m. (inexact) center, heart (the innermost part of anything with regard to all dimensions) | |
Alemania está en medio de Europa. - Germany is in the middle of Europe. | |
en medio de la nada - in the middle of nowhere | |
30. n-m. (often in the plural) method, way, means (the actions or things by which some goal is achieved or intended to be achieved, something serving some purpose) | |
El fin justifica los medios. - The end justifies the means. | |
por todos los medios - by any means | |
Se mejoraron los medios de transporte. - Means of transport were improved. | |
31. n-m. synonym of diligencia, t=diligence, hard work (as the generally effective means to achieve any goal) | |
32. n-m. (usually in the plural) medium (a means of communication, especially mass communication) | |
33. n-m. (physics) medium (the physical space and substance through which some phenomenon occurs) | |
La velocidad de la luz depende del medio. - The speed of light depends on the medium. | |
34. n-m. (art) medium (the physical substances with which art is made) | |
¿Cuál es tu medio de pintura favorito? - What's your favorite painting medium? | |
35. n-m. environment (the circumstances that affect a person or animal's development) | |
36. n-m. society (the circumstances in which a person or group of people lives) | |
37. n-m. (usually in the plural) circle (a particular segment of society) | |
medios aristocráticos - aristocratic circles... the aristocracy... | |
38. n-m. habitat (the circumstances in which an animal or group of animals lives) | |
39. v. first-person singular present indicative of mediar | |
mediar |
1. v. to mediate | |
2. v. to center, to give a central, medium or average value | |
arrastraron |
1. v. second-person plural preterit indicative of arrastrar | |
arrastrar |
1. v. to drag | |
2. v. to pull, to tow, to haul | |
3. v. to incite | |
4. v. to sweep away (e.g., a river) | |
5. v. to lug, to drag along, to drag down | |
6. v. to crawl, to creep, to drag oneself | |
7. v. to grovel | |
medio |
1. adj. half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole) | |
media hora - half hour | |
media manzana - half an apple | |
2. adj. (inexact) half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole) | |
Medio Nueva York fue a los toros. - Half of New York went to the bullfight. | |
3. adj. middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives) | |
clase media - middle class | |
4. adj. average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values) | |
velocidad media - average speed | |
5. adj. average (of or related to a representative example of a group) | |
el español medio - the average Spaniard... your typical Spaniard... | |
6. adj. (art) tasteful, bourgeois (well decorated or executed but not sublime) | |
7. adj. (linguistics) mid (of or related to the position of vowel articulation between open and closed) | |
8. adj. (grammar) middle, mediopassive (of or related to grammatical voices neither active nor passive) | |
9. adj. (Chile, slang) impressive (extremely large or good) | |
¡Media bolsa! - Such a huge bag! What an awesome bag! Whatta bag! | |
10. adv. half, incompletely (indicating an action interrupted or only partially done) | |
medio vestido - half-dressed | |
11. adv. half, kind of (particularly used to partially soften negative descriptions) | |
Es medio idiota. - He’s a bit of an idiot... He’s kind of an idiot... | |
12. n-m. half (one of two equal parts of any whole) | |
13. n-m. (math) half (any fraction with a denominator of 2) | |
14. n-m. (historical) medio, half-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L) | |
15. n-m. (historical) medio (the usual container used to measure medios) | |
16. n-m. (historical, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) medio, half-real (a former coin) | |
17. n-m. (historical, Dominican Republic) medio, half-peso (a former coin) | |
18. n-m. (historical, Ecuador) medio, half-sucre (a former coin) | |
19. n-m. (historical, Panama) medio, half-balboa (a former coin) | |
20. n-m. (historical, Bolivia) medio, half-boliviano (a former coin) | |
21. n-m. (historical, Mexico) medio, half-octavo (a former coin equal to frac, 1, 16) real | |
22. n-m. (slang) medio (following decimalization, the notional amount of frac, 6, 1, 4) centavos as half of the notional amount of a frac, 1, 8-peseta real and | |
23. n-m. middle (the part of anything located halfway between its ends or extremes in time or along one dimension in space) | |
Se despertó en medio de la noche. - She awoke in the middle of the night. | |
24. n-m. (sports) midfielder, halfback (a person forming part of the middle or central defensive or offensive line, especially in soccer) | |
25. n-m. spiritualism synonym of médium, t=medium (a person claiming to the ability to communicate with the dead) | |
26. n-m. (politics, business) cut (the payment demanded to permit or facilitate some action, especially as a bribe) | |
27. n-m. (philosophy) middle term (the general category that appears in both premises and disappears in the conclusion) | |
28. n-m. (math, usually in the plural) mean (the second and third terms of a proportion) | |
29. n-m. (inexact) center, heart (the innermost part of anything with regard to all dimensions) | |
Alemania está en medio de Europa. - Germany is in the middle of Europe. | |
en medio de la nada - in the middle of nowhere | |
30. n-m. (often in the plural) method, way, means (the actions or things by which some goal is achieved or intended to be achieved, something serving some purpose) | |
El fin justifica los medios. - The end justifies the means. | |
por todos los medios - by any means | |
Se mejoraron los medios de transporte. - Means of transport were improved. | |
31. n-m. synonym of diligencia, t=diligence, hard work (as the generally effective means to achieve any goal) | |
32. n-m. (usually in the plural) medium (a means of communication, especially mass communication) | |
33. n-m. (physics) medium (the physical space and substance through which some phenomenon occurs) | |
La velocidad de la luz depende del medio. - The speed of light depends on the medium. | |
34. n-m. (art) medium (the physical substances with which art is made) | |
¿Cuál es tu medio de pintura favorito? - What's your favorite painting medium? | |
35. n-m. environment (the circumstances that affect a person or animal's development) | |
36. n-m. society (the circumstances in which a person or group of people lives) | |
37. n-m. (usually in the plural) circle (a particular segment of society) | |
medios aristocráticos - aristocratic circles... the aristocracy... | |
38. n-m. habitat (the circumstances in which an animal or group of animals lives) | |
39. v. first-person singular present indicative of mediar | |
mediar |
1. v. to mediate | |
2. v. to center, to give a central, medium or average value | |
llevaron |
1. v. second-person plural preterit indicative of llevar | |
llevar |
1. v. to take, to carry, to take away, to carry away, to carry around, to bring, to bear, to lug (implies to move something further from who speaks) | |
Le llevaré un regalo a Rosa para su cumpleaños. - I will take a present to Rosa for her birthday. | |
2. v. to take, to take out (implies moving someone further from the speaker) | |
Llevamos a las chicas al cine. - We're taking the girls to the movies. | |
3. v. (indtr, a, intr=1) to lead, to lead to, to drive, to drive to | |
A la luz de esos resultados, todo esto lleva a la conclusión de que hay que idear métodos alternativos. - In light of those findings, all this leads to the conclusion that alternative methods s | |
4. v. to have spent time, have been | |
Llevo seis años aquí. - I've been here 6 years. | |
Llevo dos años estudiando francés. - I've been studying French for two years. | |
Llevamos más de 30 años casados. - We've been married for more than 30 years. | |
5. v. to wear (ellipsis of the more formal llevar puesto) | |
Llevaba una blusa rosa. - She was wearing a pink blouse. | |
6. v. to have, include (have as a component, part, accessory or ingredient) | |
Si es quesadilla lleva queso, si no lleva queso, no es quesadilla. - If it is a quesadilla, it has cheese; if it does not have cheese it is not a quesadilla. | |
Esta palabra no lleva acento. - This word does not have an accent mark. | |
7. v. to give a lift, to give a ride | |
8. v. (colloquial) to hold up, to be doing, to cope | |
¿Cómo lo llevas? - How are you holding up? | |
9. v. to wear | |
10. v. (informal) to be in, to be fashionable | |
fuera |
1. adv. outside | |
2. v. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir | |
|
ir |
1. v. to go (away from speaker and listener) | |
Nos gusta ir al cine. - We like to go to the movies. | |
2. v. to come (towards or with the listener) | |
Quiero ir contigo. - I want to come with you. | |
Iré a tu casa. - I'll come to your house. | |
3. v. (auxiliary) to be going to (near future), to go (+ a + infinitive) | |
Voy a decirle la verdad. - I am going to tell her the truth. | |
4. v. to go away, to leave, to depart, to go (when the destination is not essential; when something or someone is going somewhere else) | |
Lo siento. Tengo que irme. - I'm sorry. I have to leave. | |
Él se va a salvar al mundo otra vez. - He's off to save the world again. | |
5. v. to leak out (with liquids and gasses), to boil away, to go flat (gas in drinks) | |
6. v. to overflow | |
7. v. to go out (lights) | |
8. v. to finish, to wear out, to disappear (e.g. money, paint, pains, mechanical parts) | |
9. v. to die | |
10. v. to break wind, to fart | |
11. v. to wet/soil oneself (i.e., urinate or defecate in one's pants) | |
12. v. to come, to cum, to ejaculate, to orgasm | |
ser |
1. v. to be (essentially or identified as) | |
Yo soy de los Estados Unidos. - I am from the United States. | |
Errar es humano. - To err is human. | |
2. v. to be (in the passive voice sense) | |
La guitarra fue tocada. - The guitar was played. | |
3. v. to exist; to occur | |
La fiesta será mañana. - The party will be tomorrow. | |
4. n-m. a being, organism | |
5. n-m. nature, essence | |
6. n-m. value, worth | |
del |
1. contraction. of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular). | |
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 | |
el |
1. art. (masculine singular definite article); the | |
2. art. feminine singular definite article used before nouns which start with a stressed 'a': | |
el alma, las almas - the soul, the souls | |
el hacha, las hachas - the axe, the axes | |
taxi |
1. n-m. taxi | |