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) | |
bella |
1. adj. feminine singular of bello | |
bello |
1. adj. beautiful, fair | |
2. adj. lovely (wonderful) | |
chica |
1. n-f. female equivalent of chico: girl | |
2. n-f. (colloquial) gal, chick | |
3. adj. feminine singular of chico | |
chico |
1. adj. small | |
2. n-m. boy; kid | |
3. n-m. (Mexico) white-nosed coati | |
4. n-m. (Mexico) raccoon (Procyon lotor) | |
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 | |
pelo |
1. n-m. hair (a single hair) | |
2. n-m. hair (all hair on the head) | |
3. n-m. fur | |
4. v. first-person singular present indicative of pelar | |
pelar |
1. v. to peel (fruits, vegetables) | |
2. v. to skin (an animal) | |
3. v. to shell (nuts, shellfish) | |
4. v. to unwrap | |
5. v. to pluck (a bird) | |
6. v. to cut the hair of | |
7. v. to spread negative gossip, run down, criticise somebody | |
8. v. to exfoliate | |
9. v. (colloquial) to steal | |
10. v. (colloquial) to fleece | |
11. v. to notice someone, to pay attention to someone | |
12. v. to matter | |
Me la pela. - I don't give a fuck. | |
13. v. to have one's hair cut | |
14. v. to lose one's hair, to go bald | |
15. v. to peel (of skin, from the sun, etc.) | |
16. v. to fray (rope, wire) | |
17. v. to strip (to remove the insulation from a wire/cable) | |
Hay que pelar el cable para poder conectarlo al conector. - The cable must be stripped to be able to connect it to the connector. | |
18. v. (Chile) to steal | |
19. v. (Chile) to flirt | |
20. v. (Chile) to make out with a stranger at a social event | |
negro |
1. n-m. black (the color perceived in the absence of light) | |
2. n-m. a black person | |
3. n-m. ghost writer | |
4. adj. black (absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless) | |
5. adj. black (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin) | |
6. adj. dirty | |
7. adj. sad | |
8. adj. clandestine | |
9. adj. (Spain) angry | |
está negro - he's in a rage | |
10. adj. (Latin America) ( mi ~) my darling, my honey | |
estaba |
1. v. third-person singular imperfect 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 | |
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 | |
parque |
1. n-m. park | |
2. n-m. parking lot | |
3. n-m. (Mexico) ammo | |