dar |
1. v. to give, to give out | |
2. v. to hand over | |
3. v. to hit | |
Me han dado en la cabeza. - They hit me on my head. | |
4. v. to emit | |
5. v. to produce | |
6. v. to perform | |
7. v. to consider | |
Doy eso por menos que yo. - I consider that beneath me. | |
Yo lo doy por muerto. - I consider him dead. | |
8. v. (indtr, con) to encounter; to find with effort | |
Dimos con María. - We encountered Maria. | |
Dimos con el edificio después de tres horas. - We finally found the building after three hours. | |
9. v. to hit upon | |
10. v. (indtr, a, .colloquial, intr=1) to press, activate | |
darle al botón - to press the button | |
11. v. to ruin; mess up | |
Me dio la noche - It ruined the night for me | |
12. v. to occur | |
13. v. to grow naturally | |
El maíz se da en esta tierra. - Corn grows on this land. | |
14. v. to hit | |
El coche se dio con/contra un árbol. - The car hit a tree. | |
15. v. to assume | |
darse por vencido - to assume to be defeated | |
darse por muerto - to assume to be dead | |
16. v. to pretend to be, to present oneself as though one were | |
Se las da de enfermero pero nunca ha estudiado. - He pretends to be a nurse, but he's never studied. | |
17. v. to surrender | |
¿Te das? — Me doy. - Do you surrender? — I surrender. | |
18. v. to fuck (used with third person direct objects only) | |
Vos solo te la das. - You just fuck her. | |
Me quiero dar a José. - I want to fuck José. | |
19. v. to find someone sexually attractive (mostly to have a sexual encounter with) | |
Le re doy. | |
20. v. to announce, predict | |
Dan lluvia. - They announced rain. | |
a |
1. prep. to | |
2. prep. by | |
3. prep. at | |
4. prep. ng-lite, Used before words referring to people, pets, or personified objects or places that function as direct objects: personal a. | |
Lo busca a usted. - He is looking for you. | |
entender |
1. v. to understand, to fathom | |
No entiendo. - I don't understand. | |
2. v. to hear | |
3. v. to be queer; to bat for the other team | |
4. v. to get on; get along | |
5. v. to get it on; do it (have an amorous relationship) | |
6. n-m. understanding; opinion | |
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. | |
usando |
1. v. gerund of usar | |
usar |
1. v. to use | |
Usa la fuerza, Luke! - Use the force, Luke! | |
2. v. to wear | |
3. v. to consume | |
4. v. to be used | |
5. v. to be fashionable | |
cualquier |
1. det. (before noun) apocopic form of cualquiera; any; whatever; whichever | |
medio |
1. adj. half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole) | |
media hora - half hour | |
media manzana - half an apple | |
2. adj. (inexact) half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole) | |
Medio Nueva York fue a los toros. - Half of New York went to the bullfight. | |
3. adj. middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives) | |
clase media - middle class | |
4. adj. average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values) | |
velocidad media - average speed | |
5. adj. average (of or related to a representative example of a group) | |
el español medio - the average Spaniard... your typical Spaniard... | |
6. adj. (art) tasteful, bourgeois (well decorated or executed but not sublime) | |
7. adj. (linguistics) mid (of or related to the position of vowel articulation between open and closed) | |
8. adj. (grammar) middle, mediopassive (of or related to grammatical voices neither active nor passive) | |
9. adj. (Chile, slang) impressive (extremely large or good) | |
¡Media bolsa! - Such a huge bag! What an awesome bag! Whatta bag! | |
10. adv. half, incompletely (indicating an action interrupted or only partially done) | |
medio vestido - half-dressed | |
11. adv. half, kind of (particularly used to partially soften negative descriptions) | |
Es medio idiota. - He’s a bit of an idiot... He’s kind of an idiot... | |
12. n-m. half (one of two equal parts of any whole) | |
13. n-m. (math) half (any fraction with a denominator of 2) | |
14. n-m. (historical) medio, half-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L) | |
15. n-m. (historical) medio (the usual container used to measure medios) | |
16. n-m. (historical, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) medio, half-real (a former coin) | |
17. n-m. (historical, Dominican Republic) medio, half-peso (a former coin) | |
18. n-m. (historical, Ecuador) medio, half-sucre (a former coin) | |
19. n-m. (historical, Panama) medio, half-balboa (a former coin) | |
20. n-m. (historical, Bolivia) medio, half-boliviano (a former coin) | |
21. n-m. (historical, Mexico) medio, half-octavo (a former coin equal to frac, 1, 16) real | |
22. n-m. (slang) medio (following decimalization, the notional amount of frac, 6, 1, 4) centavos as half of the notional amount of a frac, 1, 8-peseta real and | |
23. n-m. middle (the part of anything located halfway between its ends or extremes in time or along one dimension in space) | |
Se despertó en medio de la noche. - She awoke in the middle of the night. | |
24. n-m. (sports) midfielder, halfback (a person forming part of the middle or central defensive or offensive line, especially in soccer) | |
25. n-m. spiritualism synonym of médium, t=medium (a person claiming to the ability to communicate with the dead) | |
26. n-m. (politics, business) cut (the payment demanded to permit or facilitate some action, especially as a bribe) | |
27. n-m. (philosophy) middle term (the general category that appears in both premises and disappears in the conclusion) | |
28. n-m. (math, usually in the plural) mean (the second and third terms of a proportion) | |
29. n-m. (inexact) center, heart (the innermost part of anything with regard to all dimensions) | |
Alemania está en medio de Europa. - Germany is in the middle of Europe. | |
en medio de la nada - in the middle of nowhere | |
30. n-m. (often in the plural) method, way, means (the actions or things by which some goal is achieved or intended to be achieved, something serving some purpose) | |
El fin justifica los medios. - The end justifies the means. | |
por todos los medios - by any means | |
Se mejoraron los medios de transporte. - Means of transport were improved. | |
31. n-m. synonym of diligencia, t=diligence, hard work (as the generally effective means to achieve any goal) | |
32. n-m. (usually in the plural) medium (a means of communication, especially mass communication) | |
33. n-m. (physics) medium (the physical space and substance through which some phenomenon occurs) | |
La velocidad de la luz depende del medio. - The speed of light depends on the medium. | |
34. n-m. (art) medium (the physical substances with which art is made) | |
¿Cuál es tu medio de pintura favorito? - What's your favorite painting medium? | |
35. n-m. environment (the circumstances that affect a person or animal's development) | |
36. n-m. society (the circumstances in which a person or group of people lives) | |
37. n-m. (usually in the plural) circle (a particular segment of society) | |
medios aristocráticos - aristocratic circles... the aristocracy... | |
38. n-m. habitat (the circumstances in which an animal or group of animals lives) | |
39. v. first-person singular present indicative of mediar | |
mediar |
1. v. to mediate | |
2. v. to center, to give a central, medium or average value | |