| acción |
| 1. n-f. action, act, deed (something done) | |
| 2. n-f. action (way of motion or functioning) | |
| 3. n-f. action (fast-paced activity) | |
| 4. n-f. (military) combat, action | |
| 5. n-f. (legal) general legal action; lawsuit | |
| 6. n-f. share (financial instrument) | |
| 7. interj. action (demanding the start of something) | |
| O |
| 1. Letter. the 16th letter of the Spanish alphabet | |
| 2. n. abbreviation of oeste; west | |
| 3. conj. or | |
| ¿Quieres un café o algo más? - Do you want a coffee or something else? | |
| 4. conj. either … or | |
| (ant-lite, ni, alt1=ni … ni) | |
| efecto |
| 1. n-m. effect | |
| No cree que los nuevos medicamentos tuvieran efecto alguno. - He doesn't believe that the new medications had any effect. | |
| surtir efecto - have an effect | |
| 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 | |
| inundar |
| 1. v. to flood, to inundate | |
| ocupar |
| 1. v. to occupy (to take or use space) | |
| 2. v. to occupy (to fill or hold a position) | |
| ocupar el puesto número ocho - to be in eighth place | |
| 3. v. to occupy, to take up (time or space) | |
| 4. v. to occupy, to reside in | |
| 5. v. to employ (to hire to work for a job) | |
| 6. v. to use | |
| 7. v. to need | |
| Ocupo ayuda. - I need help. | |
| 8. v. to look after (to watch or protect a person) | |
| 9. v. to take on (a responsibility) | |
| 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 | |
| agua |
| 1. n-f. water | |
| Quiere un vaso de agua fresca. - He wants a glass of cold water. | |
| 2. n-f. body of water | |
| 3. n-f. rain | |
| 4. n-f. (slang) urine | |
| 5. n-f. (Guatemala) pop, soda (soft drink) | |
| Voy a comprar algo de agua. - I'm gonna buy some pop. | |
| Deme agua Pepsi. - Give me Pepsi (soda). | |
| 6. n-f. (Latin America) infusion | |
| 7. v. third-person singular present indicative of aguar | |
| aguar |
| 1. v. to water down, dilute | |
| 2. v. to spoil | |
| lugares |
| 1. n. plural of lugar | |
| lugar |
| 1. n-m. place | |
| donde |
| 1. adv. (in indirect questions) where, in what place | |
| Deja los libros donde quieras. (Leave the books where you want.) | |
| 2. conj. (Chile, colloquial) because | |
| 3. conj. (Latin America, colloquial) if | |
| 4. prep. by, near to | |
| Estamos donde la plaza mayor. - We're around by the main square. | |
| 5. prep. round (at the house of) | |
| Cenamos donde Daniel. - We're having dinner (round) at Daniel's place. | |
| 6. pron. (relative) where, in what place | |
| El lugar donde estamos es secreto. (The place where we are is secret.) | |
| normalmente |
| 1. adv. normally; usually; most of the time; customarily | |
| Normalmente los viernes, desayuno la fruta, pero hoy, desayunaré los cereales. - Normally on Fridays, I eat fruit for breakfast, but today, I'll eat cereal. | |
| no |
| 1. adv. no | |
| 2. adv. not | |
| 3. interj. eh? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said) | |
| 4. n-m. no | |
| 5. n-m. abbreviation of número; no. | |
| 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) | |
| sumergiendo |
| 1. v. gerund of sumergir | |
| sumergir |
| 1. v. To submerge | |
| 2. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) To get immersed. | |
| Me sumergí en la película. - I got immersed in the film. | |
| 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 | |
| terreno |
| 1. adj. (relational) ground; land; earth | |
| 2. adj. (relational) earthly | |
| 3. n-m. land | |
| 4. n-m. ground | |
| 5. n-m. grounds (qual, plural) | |
| 6. n-m. pitch | |
