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me
1. pron. personal accusative of yo: me
2. pron. personal;dative pronoun dative of yo: to me, for me
3. pron. personal;reflexive pronoun of yo: myself
estaban
1. v. third-person plural imperfect indicative 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)
tomando
1. v. gerund of tomar
tomar
1. v. to take
Los niños toman clases de inglés - The children take English classes
Me tomó mucho tiempo - It took me a long time
Tómalo con calma. - Take it easy.
Me tomaron por un loco. - They took me for a lunatic.
2. v. to drink, have (especially an alcoholic beverage)
Tomo una sidra. (I'll have a cider.)
3. v. to take (travel by means of)
tomar el tren - to take the train
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
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
entre
1. prep. between
Entre tú y yo... - Between you and me...
2. prep. among, amongst, from
Los estudiantes pueden elegir entre una amplia gama de clases. - Students may choose from a wide range of classes.
3. prep. divided by
Diez entre cinco son dos. - Ten divided by five is two.
4. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of entrar
entrar
1. v. to enter
2. v. to come in, to get in, to go in, to get inside, to come on in
3. v. to break in
4. v. to join, to enter, to start
5. v. to access, to log in
6. v. to fit
7. v. to step in
8. v. to input, to enter (data, information)
9. v. to enter in, to enter into, to get into, to come into, to walk into, to step into, to slip into (entrar + en)
10. v. to break into (entrar + en)
11. v. to fit in, to fall in, to fall within (entrar + en)
12. v. (colloquial transitive) to make a move (on someone)
13. v. (soccer, sports) tackle (to attempt to take away a ball)
los
1. art. the
¿Qué hacen los muchachos? - What do the boys do?
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
los que no hablan - those who do not speak
dos
1. num. two
2. n. plural of do
do
1. n-m. do (musical note)
2. n-m. C (musical note or key)
3. adv. (obsolete) where
4. pron. (obsolete) where

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