| algo |
| 1. pron. something, anything | |
| Algo imprevisto ocurrió. - Something unexpected happened. | |
| Me parece algo de interés. - It seems like something interesting to me. | |
| Eso es algo natural. - It's something natural. | |
| 2. adv. rather, somewhat, kind of | |
| Me parece algo extraño. - It seems rather strange to me. | |
| 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) | |
| mal |
| 1. adj. (before the noun) apocopic form of malo bad; evil | |
| 2. adj. amiss, awry, off, wrong | |
| Me di cuenta de que algo estaba mal. - I realized something was amiss. | |
| 3. adv. badly, poorly, ill | |
| No hables mal de los muertos. - Don't speak ill of the dead. | |
| Qué mal. - Too bad. / That's too bad. | |
| 4. adv. awry, amiss, wrong, wrongly | |
| Tu plan maestro salió mal bastante rápido - Your master plan went awry pretty quickly. | |
| 5. adv. hard (functions as an adverb in Spanish but translates as an adjective in English) | |
| Estoy pasándolo mal con todo ahora mismo. - I'm just having a hard time with everything right now. | |
| 6. n-m. evil, harm; a bad thing or situation | |
| de mal en peor - from bad to worse | |
| 7. n-m. disease, illness, ailment | |
| ... le curaremos, si es que su mal tiene cura... - ... we shall cure him, if his ailment has a cure... | |
| 8. n-m. worse (substantive) | |
| para bien o para mal - for better or for worse | |
| con |
| 1. prep. with | |
| 2. prep. on | |
| Yo cuento con ustedes. - I count on you. | |
| 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 | |
| motor |
| 1. adj. moving | |
| 2. n-m. motor (mechanical device) | |
| 3. n-m. (mechanics) engine | |
| 4. n-m. (figuratively) driving force, driver, mover | |
| 5. n-m. (figuratively) powerhouse | |
| 6. n-m. (computing) backend, back end | |
| 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 | |
| este |
| 1. det. this | |
| 2. pron. Alternative spelling of éste | |
| 3. interj. uh, well (space filler in a conversation) | |
| 4. n-m. east | |
| 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 | |
| te |
| 1. pron. dative of tú: to you, for you | |
| Te voy a hacer tus calzones.... - I’m going to make your britches | |
| 2. pron. accusative of tú: you | |
| 3. pron. : yourself | |
| coche |
| 1. n-m. (chiefly Philippines, Mexico, Spain) car (a wheeled vehicle that moves independently) | |
| Mi coche tiene una avería. - My car has broken down. | |
| 2. n-m. carriage, coach (a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power) | |
| 3. n-m. (rail transport) car (a passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train) | |
| 4. n-m. (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay) baby carriage, pram | |
| 5. n-m. (slang) pig | |
