| dónde |
| 1. adv. (interrogative) where?; in what place? | |
| ¿Dónde está tu madre? - Where is your mother? | |
| 2. n-m. where | |
| está |
| 1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative 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) | |
| el |
| 1. art. (masculine singular definite article); the | |
| 2. art. feminine singular definite article used before nouns which start with a stressed 'a': | |
| el alma, las almas - the soul, the souls | |
| el hacha, las hachas - the axe, the axes | |
| depósito |
| 1. n-m. deposit | |
| 2. n-m. store, stock, depot, warehouse, repository | |
| 3. n-m. tank, reservoir | |
| 4. n-m. (Spain) pound, car pound (UK); impound lot, impound (US) | |
| 5. n-m. sediment, dregs | |
| principal |
| 1. adj. main, most important | |
| 2. adj. essential | |
| 3. n-m. chief, boss | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| La sabe toda. - He/she knows everything (it all) | |
| ¡Dónde la viste! - Where have you seen this! | |
| No te la creo. - I don't believe you. | |
| 4. n-m. (music) la (sixth note of the scale) | |
| 5. n-m. (music) A (the musical note or key) | |
| de la |
| 1. art. of the | |
| sal |
| 1. n-f. salt; table salt | |
| 2. n-f. (chemistry) salt | |
| 3. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative of salir | |
| salir |
| 1. v. to go out, to leave, to depart, to head out | |
| 2. v. to go out, to come out (to leave one's abode to go to public places) | |
| 3. v. to go out, date (be in a relationship) | |
| 4. v. to come out (e.g. from hiding), to come off (gloss, e.g. off the bench in a sport; off of a high place like a roof or ladder) | |
| 5. v. to exit, to leave, to walk out, to slip out | |
| 6. v. to step out (e.g. of a room, house or building) | |
| 7. v. to get off, to leave (e.g., get off work) | |
| 8. v. to get off (e.g. get off the plane, an island, someone's property, the street) (gloss, + de) | |
| 9. v. to get out (e.g. out of the way, out of the sun) (gloss, + de) | |
| 10. v. to go off (e.g. go off the grid, go off the air) (gloss, + de) | |
| 11. v. to log out, to quit, to exit (e.g. a web page or document) | |
| 12. v. to emerge, to come out | |
| 13. v. to come out (e.g., information, a movie) | |
| 14. v. to rise (the sun) | |
| 15. v. to climb out (e.g. a hole, a window, a canyon) | |
| 16. v. to escape, to break out | |
| 17. v. to run (e.g. a bus or other form of public transportation) | |
| 18. v. to come off, to go off (i.e. to project a certain quality) | |
| Solo espero que el gran evento salga sin problemas. - I just hope that the big event goes off without a hitch. | |
| 19. v. to appear, to look (on a painting, photo, movie, play, TV, platform, etc) | |
| En esta foto salgo bonita, por eso es la que muestro. - In this picture I look pretty, so, this is what I show. | |
| 20. v. to result, to arise as a consequence | |
| Luis salió herido de la pelea. - Luis became hurt from the fight. | |
| Aposté al 10 pero salió un 5. - I bet for 10 but it resulted 5. | |
| 21. v. to turn out, to work out, to go off | |
| Salió a su madre. - She turned out like her mother. | |
| Todo va a salir muy bien. - Everything's going to work out just fine. | |
| Sólo espero que el gran evento salga sin problemas. - I just hope that the big event goes off without a hitch. | |
| me sale imposible (hacer algo) - it turned out impossible | |
| 22. v. to be out, to get out (e.g. of a deal, of a situation) | |
| Mira, sé que negociamos eso, pero quiero salirme. - Look, I know that we negotiated that, but I want out. | |
| 23. v. to come off (i.e. to project a certain quality) | |
| Ella siempre ha salido como una persona amistosa. - She has always come off as a friendly person. | |
| Ese tipo en el parque simplemente se salió como muy raro y espeluznante. - That guy at the park just came off very strange and creepy. | |
| 24. v. to pop out (e.g. a contact lens, a cork, someone popping out of a dark space) | |
| 25. v. to get away with (+ con) | |
| 26. v. to get out, to go out (e.g. get out of control, get out of hand, go out of sync) | |
| 27. v. to go off, to turn off (go off script, on a tangent, go off the road/track/path) | |
| 28. v. to rock, rule (be fantastic) | |
