algunos |
1. det. masculine plural of alguno | |
2. pron. masculine plural of alguno | |
alguno |
1. det. some, any | |
¿Quiere alguna cosa? - Do you want anything? | |
Algún día lo haré. - I will do it someday. | |
2. det. any (used for emphasis) | |
No tiene talento alguno. - He doesn't have any talent at all. | |
3. det. various | |
4. pron. someone | |
5. pron. some, some people | |
6. pron. one (thing); a few | |
niños |
1. n. plural of niño Boys or children. | |
niño |
1. n-m. child; boy, girl | |
están |
1. v. third-person plural present 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) | |
nadando |
1. adj. (heraldry) naiant | |
2. v. gerund of nadar | |
nadar |
1. v. to swim | |
2. v. to be swimming in (used with "en") | |
¡Nadamos en dinero! - We're swimming in money! | |
en |
1. prep. in, at, on | |
Estoy en casa. - I'm at home. | |
Estoy sentado en la computadora. - I'm sitting at the computer. | |
en esta página - on this page | |
en la caja en la mesa - in the box on the table | |
2. prep. in (a time) | |
en la antigüedad - in antiquity | |
en 1999 - in 1999 | |
3. prep. in (a language) | |
No conozco esta palabra en francés. - I don't know this word in French. | |
en todos los idiomas - in all languages | |
4. prep. used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English | |
Pienso en ti. - I'm thinking of you. | |
5. prep. in (in various expressions) | |
en el sentido - in the sense | |
en nuestro afán - in our eagerness | |
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 | |
mar |
1. n. sea | |
2. n. seaside | |
3. n. (selenology) lunar mare | |
4. n. (la mar) loads | |
5. n. (la mar de) really; hella | |