| 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 | |
| casa |
| 1. n-f. house | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of casar | |
| casar |
| 1. v. to marry, wed someone to (unite two others in wedlock) | |
| 2. v. to marry off | |
| 3. v. to match (up), fit (together) | |
| Este tercero les ayudará a casar las necesidades con los recursos. - This third party will help them match needs with resources. | |
| 4. v. (reciprocal) to get married, marry (each other, one another) | |
| Se casaron justo después de la graduación. - They got married right after graduation. | |
| 5. v. to wed, marry, get married (+preo, con) | |
| Voy a casarme con la mujer de mis sueños esta noche. - I am going to marry the woman of my dreams tonight. | |
| era |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser | |
| 2. n-f. era, age | |
| la Nueva Era - New Age | |
| 3. n-f. (geology) era | |
| 4. n-f. threshing floor | |
| 5. n-f. tipple | |
| 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 | |
| una |
| 1. n-f. feminine of uno | |
| a la una, a las dos y a las tres - after three...one, two, three | |
| 2. art. feminine singular of un | |
| 3. det. feminine singular of uno | |
| 4. pron. one (an indefinite plural pronoun using a singular feminine item, used for females) | |
| 5. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of unir | |
| unir |
| 1. v. to unite, join | |
| ¡Únete al sindicato! (Join up with the union!) | |
| 2. v. to merge, conflate | |
| un |
| 1. art. a | |
| 2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one | |
| isla |
| 1. n-f. island (area of land surrounded by water) | |
| 2. n-f. block (group of urban lots of property) | |
| 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 | |
| tranquilidad |
| 1. n-f. tranquility | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| en medio |
| 1. adv. halfway; at the midpoint | |
| 2. adv. in the way; between (two or more things or people) | |
| 3. adv. however; nonetheless | |
| 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 | |
| aquel |
| 1. det. (demonstrative) that (over there; implying some distance) | |
| 2. pron. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of aquél | |
| caos |
| 1. n-m. chaos | |
| 2. n-m. mayhem, havoc, turmoil, pandemonium, bedlam | |
| 3. n-m. mess, shambles, disarray | |
