los |
1. art. the | |
¿Qué hacen los muchachos? - What do the boys do? | |
2. pron. accusative of ellos and ustedes (when referring to more than one man); them, you all (formal) | |
3. pron. plural masculine or neuter pronoun | |
los que no hablan - those who do not speak | |
puños |
1. n. plural of puño | |
puño |
1. n-m. fist (hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward) | |
2. n-m. fistful, handful, bunch (amount that can be contained in the hand) | |
3. n-m. wristband, cuff (end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) | |
4. n-m. handle, hilt (part of a tool, weapon, or other object, that is designed to be held in the hand when used) | |
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 | |
esta |
1. det. feminine singular of este | |
2. pron. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ésta, , this one | |
este |
1. det. this | |
2. pron. Alternative spelling of éste | |
3. interj. uh, well (space filler in a conversation) | |
4. n-m. east | |
camisa |
1. n-f. shirt | |
2. n-f. gas mantle | |
están |
1. v. third-person plural present indicative of estar | |
estar |
1. v. to be (have a temporary or permanent location in space) | |
¿Dónde estás? - Where are you? | |
Estoy en casa. - I am at home. | |
2. v. to be (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion) | |
El tiempo estaba frío/caliente. - The weather was cold/hot back then. | |
¿Estás feliz? - Are you happy right now? | |
3. v. to be (auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb) | |
Ella está cantando. - She is singing. | |
4. v. to be in a state (in a passive voice sense) | |
Los vasos están rotos. - The vases are broken. (In passive voice with estar, unlike haber, its past participle agrees with number and gender of the subject) | |
Llegaron y vieron que el hotel estaba abandonado. - They arrived and saw the hotel was abandoned. | |
5. v. to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion) | |
Estense callados y quietos. - Stay quiet and not moving. | |
6. v. to be to be done, to be (still) undone: | |
Esto todavía está por hacer. - This is still to be done. | |
Lo peor está por llegar. - The worst part is yet to come. | |
7. v. to be in a long-term state (in specific idioms) | |
estar muerto/a - to be dead | |
estar casado/a - to be married (can also be ser casado) | |
estar chico/a - to be short (colloquially) | |
negros |
1. adj. masculine plural of negro | |
2. n. plural of negro | |
negro |
1. n-m. black (the color perceived in the absence of light) | |
2. n-m. a black person | |
3. n-m. ghost writer | |
4. adj. black (absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless) | |
5. adj. black (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin) | |
6. adj. dirty | |
7. adj. sad | |
8. adj. clandestine | |
9. adj. (Spain) angry | |
está negro - he's in a rage | |
10. adj. (Latin America) ( mi ~) my darling, my honey | |
debo |
1. v. first-person singular present indicative of deber | |
deber |
1. v. to owe | |
Debo mucho dinero. (I owe a lot of money.) | |
2. v. (auxiliary) must, to need to, to have to (rarely used in the conditional with this meaning) | |
Debo estudiar. (I must study.) | |
Eso debe haber sido muy difícil. - That must have been really hard. | |
3. v. (auxiliary) should, to ought to, to be supposed to, to be to | |
Debería haber un plan en marcha. - There should be a plan in place. | |
La gente no debería mensajear y conducir. - People aren't supposed to text and drive. | |
Deberías disculparte. - You ought to apologize. | |
Usted debe despertarse antes del amanecer. - You are to be up before sunrise. | |
Los niños deberían dormir un poco. - The children should get some sleep. | |
4. v. (auxiliary) should have (in the preterite; having haber follow "deber" is optional and not required) | |
Debiste esperarme. - You should have waited for me. | |
Debiste haberme esperado. - You should have waited for me. | |
5. v. (auxiliary) shall (future tense usually) | |
6. v. to be due to, to be attributable to, to be the result of, to be caused by | |
7. v. (with de and infinitive) probably or most likely do or happen something (add a degree of insecurity to the verb) | |
Debes de viajar por avión, China está muy lejos. (You should probably travel by plane, China is very far away.) | |
8. n-m. obligation, duty | |
9. n-m. debt | |
10. n-m. should, ought (modal noun) | |
11. n-m. (usually in the plural) homework | |
cambiármela |
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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 | |
inmediato |
1. adj. immediate | |
de inmediato - immediately | |
de inmediato |
1. adv. immediately | |
como de inmediato - I eat immediately | |