| caballo |
| 1. n-m. horse | |
| 2. n-m. (chess) knight | |
| 3. n-m. (slang) heroin | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Estado |
| 1. Proper noun. state (any sovereign polity) | |
| 2. n-m. country, land (any broad area or territory) | |
| 3. n-m. (proscribed) alt case, Estado, , state, a territory with a formally recognized sovereign government; administration, its government | |
| 4. n-m. state (a province, particularly a fairly autonomous one within a federation) | |
| 5. n-m. state, status (a condition) | |
| 6. n-m. (historical) estado, Spanish fathom (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 167 cm) | |
| 7. Participle. past participle 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) | |
| flaco |
| 1. adj. skinny, thin, slim | |
| 2. n-m. a thin man | |
| 3. n-m. (colloquial Rioplatense Colombia) (used to address someone without using their name) | |
| 4. n-m. (colloquial Rioplatense) a young man | |
| 5. n-m. (colloquial Peru) boyfriend | |
| 6. n-m. (informal, euphemistic) urine, urination, number one | |
| Y |
| 1. Letter. the 26th letter of the Spanish alphabet | |
| 2. conj. and | |
| 3. conj. (in names of number) and | |
| setenta y seis - seventy-six | |
| 4. conj. (in arithmetic) plus, and | |
| uno y uno son dos - one plus one is two | |
| 5. conj. (informal) well | |
| ¡Y por supuesto! - Well, of course! | |
| 6. conj. (informal) what about, how about, where is/are the | |
| Pero, ¿y el concierto? ¿Ya no vamos? - But what about the concert? Are we not going anymore? | |
| ¿Y la niña? ¿Está a salvo? - How about the girl? Is she safe? | |
| ¿Y los archivos? Debo echarles un vistazo. - Where are the files? I should take a look at them. | |
| débil |
| 1. adj. weak | |
