desde |
1. prep. since | |
desde que murió - since he died | |
2. prep. from (a location) | |
Empieza desde la línea 20. - Start from line 20. | |
3. prep. starting at (a quantity, such as a price) | |
televisores desde $200 - televisions starting at $200 | |
donde |
1. adv. (in indirect questions) where, in what place | |
Deja los libros donde quieras. (Leave the books where you want.) | |
2. conj. (Chile, colloquial) because | |
3. conj. (Latin America, colloquial) if | |
4. prep. by, near to | |
Estamos donde la plaza mayor. - We're around by the main square. | |
5. prep. round (at the house of) | |
Cenamos donde Daniel. - We're having dinner (round) at Daniel's place. | |
6. pron. (relative) where, in what place | |
El lugar donde estamos es secreto. (The place where we are is secret.) | |
yo |
1. pron. First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I | |
2. n-m. (psychoanalysis) Freud's concept of the ego | |
me |
1. pron. personal accusative of yo: me | |
2. pron. personal;dative pronoun dative of yo: to me, for me | |
3. pron. personal;reflexive pronoun of yo: myself | |
encontraba |
1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of encontrar | |
encontrar |
1. v. to meet | |
2. v. to find, encounter, come across | |
María y Gertrudis se escondieron cerca de las flores, y los chicos las encontraron a las chicas. - Mary and Gertrude hid themselves near the flowers, and the boys found the girls. | |
3. v. to meet, bump into | |
4. v. to think, consider, find | |
Lo encuentro estúpido. - I find that stupid. | |
5. v. to manage (to do something) | |
6. v. to be located | |
7. v. to feel, be | |
Solo tú sabes cómo te encuentras. - Only you know how you're feeling. | |
parecía |
1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of parecer | |
parecer |
1. v. (impersonal) to seem, to see fit | |
Me parece que... - It seems to me that... | |
como mejor le parezca - as you see fit; as one sees fit | |
2. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to believe | |
3. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to think | |
¿Qué te parece si vamos al bar? - What do you think about going to a bar? | |
4. v. to strike (seem, appear, make an impression) | |
Te voy a mandar una cosa que escribí el otro día, para ver que te parece. - I am going to send you something that I wrote the other day, in order to see how it strikes you. | |
¿Te parece que cambiemos el día para el martes? - How about we change the day to Tuesday? | |
5. v. to be like, to take after, to resemble | |
6. v. to perceive | |
7. n-m. opinion | |
exactamente |
1. adv. exactly | |
igual |
1. adj. equal, same | |
Isidora es igual de alta que yo. - Isidora is as tall as me. | |
Me da igual si vienes o no vienes. - It's the same to me whether you come by or don't. | |
2. adj. identical, sharing the same characteristics | |
Tu copia de la pintura te quedó igual. - Your copy of the painting turned out the same. | |
3. adj. level (surface) | |
Han dejado el terreno de abajo igual para poder construir encima. - They have levelled the terrain down there to build something on it. | |
4. n. equal (a person or thing of equal status) | |
No le hables así, como si fuera tu igual. - Don't talk to her/him like that, as if s/he was your equal. | |
5. n-m. equals sign | |
Se te olvidó poner un igual en la última línea. - You forgot to add an equals sign on the last line. | |
6. adv. in the same way; just like | |
La vio una vez, y ahora cocina la pasta igual. - He saw her just once, and now he cooks pasta the same way. | |
7. adv. regardless, anyway | |
Le pedí y pedí el favor. Igual no quiso ayudarme. - I asked him again and again for the favour. He didn't help us anyway. | |
8. adv. (colloquial Spain) maybe | |
Esta noche igual van al teatro. - Tonight maybe they’ll go to the cinema. | |
que |
1. conj. that | |
Él dice que está triste. - He says that he is sad. | |
2. conj. than | |
Llego más tarde que tú. - I am arriving later than you. | |
3. conj. (indicating a reason); because, for | |
¡Ve más lento, que es resbaloso! - Slow down, (for) it is slippery! | |
4. conj. (indicating desire or permission); may (used with the subjunctive) | |
Que te vaya bien. - May it go well for you. | |
Que Dios me perdone. - May God forgive me. | |
5. pron. who; that | |
la estrella que está en la película - the star who is in the movie | |
6. pron. that; whom | |
la mujer con la que yo hablé - the woman with whom I spoke | |
7. pron. that; which | |
la casa que yo quiero - the house that I want | |
8. prep. than | |
9. prep. like, as | |
10. part. to | |
cualquier |
1. det. (before noun) apocopic form of cualquiera; any; whatever; whichever | |
otra |
1. det. feminine singular of otro | |
2. interj. feminine singular of otro | |
3. pron. feminine singular of otro | |
otro |
1. det. other, another | |
Deme otro ejemplo. - Give me another example. | |
2. interj. "Not again!" or "What, again?" (also Otra vez! or Otra vez?) | |
3. pron. someone else; another person | |
4. pron. something else; another one | |
linotipia |
1. n-f. linotyping | |
2. n-f. linotype workshop | |
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 | |
ese |
1. det. (demonstrative) that | |
2. interj. (Mexico, informal) hello | |
3. pron. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése | |
modelo |
1. n-m. model (a successful example to be copied) | |
2. n-m. model (a representation of a physical object in miniature) | |
3. n-m. model (a simplified representation used to explain the workings of a system or event) | |
4. n. fashion model | |
5. v. first-person singular present indicative of modelar | |
modelar |
1. v. to model | |