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Sentence

Ese trabajo es fácil: él se la pasa galán todos los días.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

That job is very easy: every day he lets time pass by without worries, enjoying it



Analysis


ese
     1. det. (demonstrative) that
     2. interj. (Mexico, informal) hello
     3. pron. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése
trabajo
     1. n-m. work, job
     2. n-m. (physics) work
     3. v. first-person singular present indicative of trabajar
     trabajar
          1. v. to work
          2. v. to work in, work on, to workshop (+ en)
          3. v. (obsolete) to suffer
es
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of ser; (he/she/it/one) is
     2. n. plural of e
     ser
          1. v. to be (essentially or identified as)
          2. v. to be (in the passive voice sense)
          3. v. to exist; to occur
          4. n-m. a being, organism
          5. n-m. nature, essence
          6. n-m. value, worth
     e
          1. conj. and
fácil
     1. adj. easy, facile, simple (requiring little effort)
     2. adj. easy-to-use, user-friendly ((clipping of fácil de usar))
     3. adj. (slang) easy (being readily available for sex)
     4. adj. (obsolete) gullible, credulous
     5. adv. easily
él
     1. pron. he, him, masculine personal third person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions)
     2. pron. it, masculine non-personal third-person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions to refer to masculine nouns)
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
     2. pron. (used to convey the meaning of the English passive voice in the third person and with) usted and ustedes
     3. pron. (used instead of indirect object pronouns) le and les (before the direct object pronouns lo, la, los, or las)
     4. v. misspelling of sé
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
     4. n-m. (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
     5. n-m. (music) A (the musical note or key)
pasa
     1. n-f. raisin
     2. adj. feminine singular of paso
     3. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative of pasar
     pasar
          1. v. to pass, to hand, to slip
          2. v. to happen
          3. v. to pass, to get past, to go past, to go by, to go over, to get through
          4. v. to spend time
          5. v. to enter a room
          6. v. to go too far, exaggerate
          7. v. to exceed, surpass, go over
          8. v. to ripen too much, become rotten, become off (food)
          9. v. to pass (filter)
          10. v. to strain, to sieve, to sift
          11. v. to break the law, rule, order
          12. v. to trespass (enter on someone's property without permission)
          13. v. to puree (crush or grind food into a puree)
          14. v. to omit, leave out
          15. v. to send, transmit
          16. v. to stand, tolerate, bear
          17. v. to go through, to pass through, to swing by (+ por)
          18. v. (with a + infinitive) to begin a process or action; (gloss, with ser) to become, to come to be
          19. v. (Latin America) to pass an exam
          20. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to stop by, to swing by
          21. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to spend (time)
     paso
          1. adj. dried (said of fruit)
          2. n-m. pace (rough distance of a brisk stride)
          3. n-m. (historical, measure) paso, Spanish pace (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 1.4 m)
          4. n-m. step (in a set of instructions)
          5. n-m. way, passage
          6. n-m. pitch (of a helix or screw thread)
          7. n-m. (geography) pass, col
          8. n-m. float (in religious parades, carried on the backs of a group of people called costaleros)
          9. v. first-person singular present indicative of pasar
galán
     1. adj. gallant
     2. adj. (colloquial Mexico El Salvador) nice, enviable, without worries (said of a situation)
     3. n-m. an attractive young man, gallant
     4. n-m. beau
     5. n-m. (drama) protagonist, leading man
     6. adv. (colloquial Mexico El Salvador) copiously, in a great and unmeasured quantity
     7. adv. (colloquial El Salvador) without worries, enjoying it (said of an enviable situation)
todos
     1. det. masculine plural of todo
     todo
          1. det. all, every
          2. det. each, every
          3. pron. everything
los
     1. art. the
     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
días
     1. n. plural of día
     día
          1. n-m. day (any period of 24 hours)
          2. n-m. day (a period from midnight to the following midnight)
          3. n-m. day (rotational period of a planet)
          4. n-m. day (the part of a day period which one spends at work, school, etc.)
          5. n-m. day, daytime (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset)




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