| cuando |
| 1. adv. when | |
| 2. conj. when | |
| Ven cuando estés listo. - Come when you're ready. | |
| todos |
| 1. det. masculine plural of todo | |
| todo |
| 1. det. all, every | |
| todos los días - every day | |
| Todos somos jóvenes. - We are all young. | |
| todo tipo de - every type/kind/sort of; all kinds/sorts of | |
| 2. det. each, every | |
| Toda persona es un individuo. - Every person is an individual. | |
| 3. pron. everything | |
| todo lo que dijiste - everything that you said | |
| 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 | |
| miembros |
| 1. n. plural of miembro | |
| miembro |
| 1. n-m. member (one who belongs to a group) | |
| 2. n-m. (anatomy) limb (a major appendage of a person or animal) | |
| 3. n-m. penis | |
| del |
| 1. contraction. of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular). | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| grupo |
| 1. n-m. group | |
| 2. n-m. party, team, crew, gang, squad, (when interchangeable with "group") | |
| El grupo de abordaje está listo con sus billetes en la mano. - The boarding party is ready with their tickets in hand. | |
| 3. n-m. cluster, bunch, clump, pool, grouping, lot, batch | |
| 4. n-m. bracket (range) | |
| 5. n-m. caucus (non-electoral) (i.e. a grouping of members) | |
| 6. n-m. circle, collection (social, of people) | |
| 7. n-m. (music) band | |
| 8. n-m. (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, colloquial) guile, lie | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| silencio |
| 1. n-m. silence | |
| 2. v. first-person singular present indicative of silenciar | |
| silenciar |
| 1. v. to silence | |
| 2. v. to hush up, keep quiet, keep silent about (To refrain from talking about something) | |
| 3. v. to mute (to turn off the sound of the mobile, TV) | |
| en silencio |
| 1. adv. silently, in silence, quietly, wordlessly, mutely | |
| 2. adv. on mute (for an electronic device that sounds) | |
| 3. adj. silent | |
| alguien |
| 1. pron. someone, somebody | |
| 2. pron. anyone, anybody | |
| debe |
| 1. v. informal second-person singular affirmative imperative of deber | |
| deber |
| 1. v. to owe | |
| Debo mucho dinero. (I owe a lot of money.) | |
| 2. v. (auxiliary) must, to need to, to have to (rarely used in the conditional with this meaning) | |
| Debo estudiar. (I must study.) | |
| Eso debe haber sido muy difícil. - That must have been really hard. | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) should, to ought to, to be supposed to, to be to | |
| Debería haber un plan en marcha. - There should be a plan in place. | |
| La gente no debería mensajear y conducir. - People aren't supposed to text and drive. | |
| Deberías disculparte. - You ought to apologize. | |
| Usted debe despertarse antes del amanecer. - You are to be up before sunrise. | |
| Los niños deberían dormir un poco. - The children should get some sleep. | |
| 4. v. (auxiliary) should have (in the preterite; having haber follow "deber" is optional and not required) | |
| Debiste esperarme. - You should have waited for me. | |
| Debiste haberme esperado. - You should have waited for me. | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary) shall (future tense usually) | |
| 6. v. to be due to, to be attributable to, to be the result of, to be caused by | |
| 7. v. (with de and infinitive) probably or most likely do or happen something (add a degree of insecurity to the verb) | |
| Debes de viajar por avión, China está muy lejos. (You should probably travel by plane, China is very far away.) | |
| 8. n-m. obligation, duty | |
| 9. n-m. debt | |
| 10. n-m. should, ought (modal noun) | |
| 11. n-m. (usually in the plural) homework | |
| romper |
| 1. v. to break | |
| romper el hechizo - break the spell | |
| se me ha roto el móvil - my mobile phone broke | |
| Rómpase la cabeza con ilusiones ópticas. - Rack your brain with optical illusions. | |
| 2. v. to break up, terminate (a relationship, friendship etc.) | |
| Mariana rompió con ella. - Mariana broke up with her. | |
| Mariana y Catalina rompieron. - Mariana and Catalina broke up. | |
| 3. v. (with a) to begin to do something | |
| romper a conducir - to start driving | |
| 4. v. to rupture | |
| 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 | |
| hielo |
| 1. n-m. ice | |
| 2. v. first-person singular present indicative of helar | |
| helar |
| 1. v. to freeze, to cool | |
| 2. v. to freeze | |
| romper el hielo |
| 1. v. to break the ice | |
