cuál |
1. pron. (interrogative pronoun, as part of a question) what (in terms of a very specific item); which, which one | |
¿Cuál es tu dirección? (What is your address?) | |
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) | |
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 | |
e |
1. conj. and | |
Yo hablo francés e inglés. - I speak French and English. | |
color |
1. n. color, colour, hue | |
2. n. (usually feminine archaic or dialectal) complexion | |
3. n-m. rouge (cosmetics) | |
4. n-m. pretext, motive, reason | |
5. n-m. character; special quality | |
6. n-m. side, party, faction | |
7. n-m. race, ethnicity | |
8. n-m. (poker) flush | |
natural |
1. adj. natural (of or relating to nature) | |
2. adj. natural, plain (without artificial additives) | |
En realidad prefiero yogur natural. - I actually prefer plain yogurt. | |
3. adj. natural (as expected; reasonable) | |
4. adj. (of a day) being a calendar day | |
5. adj. (music) natural (neither sharp nor flat) | |
6. adj. (of a child) illegitimate (born to unmarried parents) | |
7. adj. (of a drink) room-temperature (neither heated nor chilled) | |
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 | |
tu |
1. det. (before the noun) apocopic form of tuyo, your | |
pelo |
1. n-m. hair (a single hair) | |
2. n-m. hair (all hair on the head) | |
3. n-m. fur | |
4. v. first-person singular present indicative of pelar | |
pelar |
1. v. to peel (fruits, vegetables) | |
2. v. to skin (an animal) | |
3. v. to shell (nuts, shellfish) | |
4. v. to unwrap | |
5. v. to pluck (a bird) | |
6. v. to cut the hair of | |
7. v. to spread negative gossip, run down, criticise somebody | |
8. v. to exfoliate | |
9. v. (colloquial) to steal | |
10. v. (colloquial) to fleece | |
11. v. to notice someone, to pay attention to someone | |
12. v. to matter | |
Me la pela. - I don't give a fuck. | |
13. v. to have one's hair cut | |
14. v. to lose one's hair, to go bald | |
15. v. to peel (of skin, from the sun, etc.) | |
16. v. to fray (rope, wire) | |
17. v. to strip (to remove the insulation from a wire/cable) | |
Hay que pelar el cable para poder conectarlo al conector. - The cable must be stripped to be able to connect it to the connector. | |
18. v. (Chile) to steal | |
19. v. (Chile) to flirt | |
20. v. (Chile) to make out with a stranger at a social event | |