| 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 | |
| té |
| 1. n-m. tea | |
| sabe |
| 1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative of saber | |
| saber |
| 1. v. to know (a fact), to wit | |
| Sé que volverá. - I know that it'll come back. | |
| Lo siguiente que sé... - Next thing I know... | |
| que yo sepa - as far as I know | |
| Si tu supieras... - If you knew... | |
| 2. v. to know how to do something | |
| Sabe hablar español. - He knows how to speak Spanish. | |
| 3. v. (in the preterite tense) to find out, to learn | |
| 4. v. to taste | |
| Sabe a pollo. - It tastes like chicken. | |
| 5. v. to realize, to know (e.g. recognize) | |
| El hombre no sabe lo talentoso que su hijo es. - The man doesn't realize how talented his son is. | |
| 6. v. to tell, to know (i.e. to discern or distinguish if something is the case) | |
| Siempre es difícil saber si me mientes. - It's always hard to tell if you're lying to me. | |
| 7. v. (informal) to figure out | |
| Todavía estamos tratando de saber qué acaba de pasar. - We're still trying to figure out what just happened. | |
| 8. v. to hear from (+ de) | |
| No he sabido nada de ella en meses. - I haven't heard from her in months. | |
| 9. v. to hear of, to hear about, (+ de) | |
| 10. v. to learn of, to learn about, to find out about, to know about (+ de) | |
| 11. v. to be known | |
| Ya se sabe que uno de los factores que aceleran esta enfermedad es el estrés. - It is known that one of the factors that speeds up this disease is stress. | |
| 12. v. to know (extremely well) | |
| He oído que te sabes todas las líneas de la película de memoria. - I heard that you know all the lines of the movie by heart. | |
| 13. n-m. knowledge | |
| muy |
| 1. adv. very | |
| Tengo un coche muy caro. - I have a very expensive car. | |
| amargo |
| 1. adj. bitter, sour (having an acrid taste) | |
| 2. n-m. bitterness | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present indicative of amargar | |
| amargar |
| 1. v. to make bitter; embitter | |
| 2. v. to go bitter, get bitter | |
| 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. | |
| no |
| 1. adv. no | |
| 2. adv. not | |
| 3. interj. eh? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said) | |
| 4. n-m. no | |
| 5. n-m. abbreviation of número; no. | |
| 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) | |
| bueno |
| 1. adj. good | |
| Que tengas una buena noche. - Have a good night. | |
| Que tengas un buen viaje. - Have a good trip. | |
| 2. adj. fine | |
| 3. interj. okay; fine | |
| 4. interj. (used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence | |
| Bueno, pues, mira. - Well, then, look. | |
| 5. interj. (interrogatively, Mexico) Expression used when answering the phone, often with the pronunciation IPAchar, /bweˈno/, rather than IPAchar, /ˈbweno/. | |
| ¿Bueno? - Hello? | |
