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1. prep. to | |
2. prep. by | |
3. prep. at | |
4. prep. ng-lite, Used before words referring to people, pets, or personified objects or places that function as direct objects: personal a. | |
Lo busca a usted. - He is looking for you. | |
menudo |
1. adj. what (a/an) (intensifier, followed by a noun) | |
¡Menudo capullo! - What a plonker! | |
¡Menuda casa de lujo! - What a fancy house! | |
2. adj. small, tiny | |
3. adj. insignificant | |
4. n-m. (slim-wikipedia, Menudo (comida)) | |
5. n-m. (Mexico, cooking) a traditional Mexican spicy soup made with tripe | |
6. n-m. (Mexico, cooking) tripes (used as food) | |
7. n-m. (Dominican Republic) money, usually a singular unit (dollar or peso) | |
a menudo |
1. adv. often, oftentimes (habitually) | |
hace |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of hacer | |
2. prep. ago (Note: unlike in English, hace precedes the number.) | |
Él nos visitó hace tres años. - He visited us three years ago. | |
Lo compré hace poco. - I bought it not long ago. | |
Mi padre y yo no nos hablamos desde hace un año. - My father and I don't talk since one year ago. | |
3. prep. (followed by que) in, it has been...since (a past period of time) | |
Hace un mes que no te veo. - I haven’t seen you in a month. | |
Hace quince años que mis padres se casaron. - It has been fifteen years since my parents got married. | |
Hace dos años que no viajo a Europa. - It has been two years since I traveled to Europe. | |
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. | |
falta |
1. n-f. lack, shortage | |
2. n-f. fault | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of faltar | |
4. adj. feminine singular of falto | |
faltar |
1. v. (indtr, a, intr=1) to be lacking, lack, not have | |
Te falta imaginación. - Imagination lacks to you. | |
2. v. to remain | |
¿Cuánto tiempo falta? - How much time left? | |
Falta un mes para mi cumpleaños. - My birthday is a month away. | |
3. v. to be absent, missing | |
aún falta una persona - one person is still missing | |
4. v. (indtr, a) to miss (a date or an appointment) | |
faltar al trabajo - to miss work | |
dedicación |
1. n-f. dedication | |
para |
1. prep. for, to (expressing a recipient) | |
La niña compró un regalo de navidad para su abuela. - The girl bought a Christmas gift for her grandmother. | |
Ahora me gustaría hacer un truco de magia para ustedes. - I'd now like to perform a magic trick for you all. | |
2. prep. to, in order to, so, for (expressing the intended purpose of an action) | |
Estudio cada noche sin descanso para conseguir un trabajo decente al fin de todo esto. - I study every night tirelessly so that I get a decent job at the end of all this. | |
Voy a salir temprano para evitar el tráfico. - I am going to leave early to avoid traffic. | |
3. prep. by, due, due on, due by (expressing a deadline) | |
Necesito tu decisión para fin de mes. - I need your decision by the end of the month. | |
Sus proyectos de grupo son para el viernes sin excepción. - Your group projects are due on Friday without exception. | |
4. prep. for (expressing contrast from what is expected) | |
Para un turista americano, él es en realidad bastante respetuoso. - For an American tourist, he is actually pretty respectful. | |
5. prep. for, to, in one's opinion, as far as one is concerned (expressing an opinion, perception or perspective) | |
Para mí, la música es lo único bueno sobre esa película. - For me, the music was the only good thing about that film. | |
Para mi hermano, su esposa tiene toda la razón. - As far as my brother is concerned, his wife is totally in the right. | |
6. prep. for (expressing using one's efforts for a group or an authority figure such as a sports team or a company/boss) | |
Mi sobrino juega para el equipo de los Patos Poderosos. - My nephew plays for the Mighty Ducks' team. | |
Trabajamos para la misma jefe aunque no al mismo tiempo. - We worked for the same boss but not at the same time. | |
Ella trabajó para Microsoft durante años, pero ahora trabaja para Apple. - She worked for Microsoft for years, but now she works for Apple. | |
7. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of parir | |
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parar |
1. v. to stop, halt | |
2. v. to put up, stand up | |
3. v. to lift, raise | |
4. v. to stand up | |
5. v. to situate oneself | |
6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, Chile) see pararlas | |
lograr |
1. v. to get, to obtain | |
2. v. to achieve, to manage to, to pull off | |
3. v. to be successful | |
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 | |
meta |
1. n-f. goal | |
2. n-f. target | |
3. n-f. (slang) meth | |
4. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of meter | |
meter |
1. v. to put in, insert | |
2. v. (sports) to score | |
meter un gol - to score a goal | |
3. v. to make (qual, noise) | |
4. v. to cram, to stuff, to stick, to shove | |
5. v. to meddle, interfere, to get into | |
¡No te metas en lo que no te importa! - Don't get involved in other people's business!/ Don't meddle in others' affairs! | |
6. v. to get into (a small space) | |
7. v. to get into, to get in | |
meterse en problemas - to get in trouble. | |
Está tratando de meterse en tu cabeza. - He's trying to get into your head. | |