| 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 | |
| partido |
| 1. adj. broken | |
| 2. adj. (heraldry) divided into two equal parts vertically, per pale | |
| 3. adj. departed | |
| 4. adj. split | |
| 5. n-m. (politics) party | |
| 6. n-m. (sports) game, match (chiefly for soccer) | |
| 7. n-m. (hair) hair parting or part | |
| 8. n-m. advantage, benefit | |
| 9. n-m. a subdivision of Buenos Aires Province | |
| 10. Participle. past participle of partir | |
| partir |
| 1. v. to divide, split | |
| 2. v. to go away, leave, depart | |
| 3. v. to crack up, have a laugh | |
| 4. v. to fall in love | |
| 5. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to crack open (e.g., one's head) | |
| 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 | |
| poder |
| 1. v. to be able, can | |
| ¿Puedes acompañarme mañana? - Could you come with me tomorrow? | |
| No puedes salir ya que no tienes permiso. - You can't go out since you're not allowed. | |
| No puedo hablar francés. - I can't speak French. | |
| Podría ayudar si me dejaran. - I could help you if you would let me. | |
| 2. v. (El Salvador, colloquial, reflexive) to be familiar with something, or with somebody's personality | |
| ¿Te podés el número de tu prima? - Do you know your cousin's phone number? | |
| Como entrenador, tengo que poderme bien a todos mis jugadores. - As a coach, I must know my players really well. | |
| 3. n-m. power, reign | |
| 4. n-m. authorization | |
| 5. n-m. proxy (written certificate of authority to act for another) | |
| está |
| 1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative 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) | |
| llevando |
| 1. v. gerund of llevar | |
| llevar |
| 1. v. to take, to carry, to take away, to carry away, to carry around, to bring, to bear, to lug (implies to move something further from who speaks) | |
| Le llevaré un regalo a Rosa para su cumpleaños. - I will take a present to Rosa for her birthday. | |
| 2. v. to take, to take out (implies moving someone further from the speaker) | |
| Llevamos a las chicas al cine. - We're taking the girls to the movies. | |
| 3. v. (indtr, a, intr=1) to lead, to lead to, to drive, to drive to | |
| A la luz de esos resultados, todo esto lleva a la conclusión de que hay que idear métodos alternativos. - In light of those findings, all this leads to the conclusion that alternative methods s | |
| 4. v. to have spent time, have been | |
| Llevo seis años aquí. - I've been here 6 years. | |
| Llevo dos años estudiando francés. - I've been studying French for two years. | |
| Llevamos más de 30 años casados. - We've been married for more than 30 years. | |
| 5. v. to wear (ellipsis of the more formal llevar puesto) | |
| Llevaba una blusa rosa. - She was wearing a pink blouse. | |
| 6. v. to have, include (have as a component, part, accessory or ingredient) | |
| Si es quesadilla lleva queso, si no lleva queso, no es quesadilla. - If it is a quesadilla, it has cheese; if it does not have cheese it is not a quesadilla. | |
| Esta palabra no lleva acento. - This word does not have an accent mark. | |
| 7. v. to give a lift, to give a ride | |
| 8. v. (colloquial) to hold up, to be doing, to cope | |
| ¿Cómo lo llevas? - How are you holding up? | |
| 9. v. to wear | |
| 10. v. (informal) to be in, to be fashionable | |
| 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. | |
| cabo |
| 1. n-m. end, edge, extremity (furthest or terminal point of something) | |
| 2. n-m. end, finish, conclusion (terminal point of something in time) | |
| 3. n-m. stub, butt, stump (something blunted, stunted, burnt to a stub, or cut short) | |
| 4. n-m. (nautical) cable, rope (strong rope or chain, especially used to moor or anchor a ship) | |
| 5. n-m. (landforms) cape, headland (piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake) | |
| 6. n-m. (military ranks) corporal (non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4) | |
| 7. n-m. (police) sergeant (highest rank of noncommissioned officer) | |
| 8. n-m. (in the plural) accessories, knick-knacks, odds and ends (small trinket of minor value) | |
| una |
| 1. n-f. feminine of uno | |
| a la una, a las dos y a las tres - after three...one, two, three | |
| 2. art. feminine singular of un | |
| 3. det. feminine singular of uno | |
| 4. pron. one (an indefinite plural pronoun using a singular feminine item, used for females) | |
| 5. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of unir | |
| unir |
| 1. v. to unite, join | |
| ¡Únete al sindicato! (Join up with the union!) | |
| 2. v. to merge, conflate | |
| un |
| 1. art. a | |
| 2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one | |
| campaña |
| 1. n-f. campaign | |
| 2. n-f. countryside | |
| 3. n-f. (heraldry) base | |
| 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 | |
| calumnias |
| 1. n. plural of calumnia | |
| 2. v. informal second-person singular present indicative of calumniar | |
| calumniar |
| 1. v. to slander, to cast aspersions | |
| calumnia |
| 1. n-f. slander, calumny, aspersion, libel, defamation | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of calumniar | |
| contra |
| 1. prep. against, versus | |
| la lucha contra el prejuicio - the fight against prejudice | |
| 2. n-m. con (disadvantage) | |
| 3. n-f. antidote | |
| 4. n-f. counterpunch | |
| 5. n-f. counterattack | |
| 6. adv. opposite, facing | |
| la |
| 1. art. the | |
| 2. pron. accusative of ella, ello (when the antecedent's implied gender is feminine), and usted (when referring to a woman); her, it, you (formal) | |
| 3. pron. (impersonal neuter pronoun (accusative) in certain colloquial phrases): it, this | |
| La sabe toda. - He/she knows everything (it all) | |
| ¡Dónde la viste! - Where have you seen this! | |
| No te la creo. - I don't believe you. | |
| 4. n-m. (music) la (sixth note of the scale) | |
| 5. n-m. (music) A (the musical note or key) | |
| oposición |
| 1. n-f. opposition | |
| 2. n-f. (Spain, often in the plural) a civil service entrance examination | |
