| 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) | |
| joven |
| 1. adj. young, youthful | |
| Mis tías son jóvenes. - My aunts are young. | |
| 2. n. youth, young person, youngster | |
| 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 | |
| se |
| 1. pron. (third person (also used for usted and ustedes) reflexive direct or indirect object) oneself, himself, herself, itself, yourself; each other; one another | |
| Juan se lava. - Juan washes himself. | |
| Juan se lava la cara. - Juan to himself washes the face. | |
| Juan y María se aman. - Juan and María love each other. | |
| 2. pron. (used to convey the meaning of the English passive voice in the third person and with) usted and ustedes | |
| ¿Cómo se llama? - How do you call yourself? | |
| Se dice que... - It says itself that... | |
| Aquí se habla español - One speaks Spanish here, Spanish speaks itself here. | |
| 3. pron. (used instead of indirect object pronouns) le and les (before the direct object pronouns lo, la, los, or las) | |
| El samaritano se las dio. - The Samaritan gave them to him. | |
| 4. v. misspelling of sé | |
| desplazaba |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of desplazar | |
| desplazar |
| 1. v. to displace | |
| 2. v. to move | |
| por |
| 1. prep. by (indicates the creator of a work) | |
| La novela Cien años de soledad fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez. - The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by Gabriel García Márquez. | |
| 2. prep. for (indicates something given in an exchange) | |
| Lo compré por cincuenta euros. - I bought this for fifty euros. | |
| 3. prep. through, out, via (indicating movement) | |
| La mujer ve la puesta de sol por la ventana. - The woman watches the sunset through the window. | |
| Supongo que nuestra huésped se fue por la puerta trasera porque no la he visto. - I guess our guest went out the back door because I haven't seen her. | |
| 4. prep. across (indicating movement) | |
| El hombre camina por la calle. - The man walks across the street. | |
| 5. prep. about | |
| 6. prep. due to, because of, for, for the sake of, out of (to express cause or motive) | |
| Él no pudo venir por eso. - He couldn't come due to that. | |
| Por amor a su esposo, ella aguanta a sus suegros. - Out of love for her husband, she puts up with his in-laws. | |
| 7. prep. (used with directions) over | |
| por allí - over there | |
| 8. prep. (mathematics) times, by, multiplied by | |
| ocho por siete - eights times seven; eights by seven | |
| 9. prep. according to, for, regarding (to express opinion or something concerning someone) | |
| Por mí, está bien. - For all I care, it's fine. | |
| ¡Bien por ti! - Good for you! | |
| 10. prep. via, through, by (indicating the means of something) | |
| Por favor, devuelva este documento completado por correo electrónico. - Please, return this document completed via email. | |
| 11. prep. for (indicating duration) | |
| Mi profesor se salió por la tangente por una hora entera. - My professor went off on a tangent for a whole hour. | |
| 12. prep. for, for the sake of, on behalf of (indicating doing something for someone's benefit) | |
| No lo hago por ti. - I'm not doing it for your sake. | |
| Ella irá a trabajar por mí mañana. - She will be filling in for me at work tomorrow. | |
| 13. prep. per, for each | |
| Cuesta diez dólares por artículo. - It costs ten dollars per item. | |
| 14. prep. to (indicating something that has not yet passed) | |
| Eso está por ver. - That remains to be seen. | |
| La hora aún está por confirmar. - The time is yet to be confirmed. | |
| 15. prep. about to (indicating something that will soon happen) | |
| Su hermana está por llegar del aeropuerto en cualquier momento. - Her sister is about to arrive from the airport any minute now. | |
| 16. prep. compared to; against; versus (indicating a comparison) | |
| primera |
| 1. n-f. lowest gear in a motor vehicle | |
| 2. n-f. first class | |
| 3. adj. feminine singular of primero | |
| primero |
| 1. n-m. former (in contrast to the latter), first, first one | |
| 2. n-m. one of the five bids in the card game of Primero, consisting of a combination of four cards in the hand | |
| 3. adj. (ordinal) first, first up | |
| 4. adj. top (head) | |
| Mi sobrino se graduó como el primero de su clase. - My nephew graduated at the top of his class. | |
| 5. adj. chief, fundamental | |
| 6. adj. prime, initial, front | |
| Sería un lugar primero para el establecimiento humano. - It would be a prime place for human settlement. | |
| Mira la primera plana. - Check out the front page. | |
| 7. adv. first, first of all, firstly | |
| vez |
| 1. n-f. time, instance | |
| una vez - once | |
| a veces - sometimes | |
| Lo hizo dos veces. - He did it twice. | |
| cada vez que te veo - every time that I see you | |
| 2. n-f. (Spain) place (in a queue) | |
| 3. n-f. (Spain) turn (a chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others) | |
| 4. n-f. (in the plural) place, stead | |
| hacer las veces de - to serve as | |
| por vez |
| 1. adv. at the same time | |
| al |
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| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| extranjero |
| 1. adj. foreign | |
| 2. n-m. foreigner | |
| 3. n-m. foreign countries | |
| 4. n-m. abroad | |
| 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 | |
| tareas |
| 1. n. plural of tarea | |
| tarea |
| 1. n-f. task | |
| 2. n-f. homework | |
| 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 | |
| cooperación |
| 1. n-f. cooperation | |
| Internacional |
| 1. Proper noun. Internationale | |
| 2. adj. international | |
| llegó |
| 1. v. third-person singular preterite indicative of llegar | |
| llegar |
| 1. v. to arrive, get (to) | |
| Cuando llegues a casa, mándame un mensaje. - When you get home, send me a message. | |
| 2. v. to get up to, to go up to (+ a or + hasta) | |
| 3. v. to be sufficient | |
| 4. v. to manage (be successful) | |
| no llegué a conseguir el trabajo - I didn't manage to get the job. | |
| 5. v. to reach | |
| 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. | |
| Guinea |
| 1. Proper noun. Guinea (a country in West Africa) | |
| 2. n-f. guinea (British gold coin) | |
| 3. n-f. female equivalent of guineo | |
| 4. adj. feminine singular of guineo | |
| 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 | |
| pasado |
| 1. adj. past | |
| 2. adj. former | |
| 3. adj. last | |
| el pasado mes de noviembre - last November | |
| 4. n-m. past, bygones | |
| Hemos prometido que lo pasado, pasado está. - We promised to let bygones be bygones. | |
| 5. n-m. (grammar) past | |
| 6. Participle. past participle of pasar | |
| pasar |
| 1. v. to pass, to hand, to slip | |
| 2. v. to happen | |
| ¿qué pasa? - what's up? | |
| estas cosas pasan - these things happen | |
| Ya me ha pasado. - It has already happened to me. | |
| 3. v. to pass, to get past, to go past, to go by, to go over, to get through | |
| ¿Cómo pasaste la seguridad? - How did you get past security? | |
| ¡No pasarán! - They shall not pass! | |
| 4. v. to spend time | |
| pasarlo bien - to have a good time | |
| pásalo en grande - have a great time | |
| 5. v. to enter a room | |
| 6. v. to go too far, exaggerate | |
| 7. v. to exceed, surpass, go over | |
| 8. v. to ripen too much, become rotten, become off (food) | |
| 9. v. to pass (filter) | |
| 10. v. to strain, to sieve, to sift | |
| 11. v. to break the law, rule, order | |
| 12. v. to trespass (enter on someone's property without permission) | |
| 13. v. to puree (crush or grind food into a puree) | |
| 14. v. to omit, leave out | |
| ¡pasa de ellos! - pay no attention to them! | |
| 15. v. to send, transmit | |
| 16. v. to stand, tolerate, bear | |
| 17. v. to go through, to pass through, to swing by (+ por) | |
| 18. v. (with a + infinitive) to begin a process or action; (gloss, with ser) to become, to come to be | |
| 19. v. (Latin America) to pass an exam | |
| 20. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to stop by, to swing by | |
| 21. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to spend (time) | |
| lunes |
| 1. n-m. Monday | |
| un |
| 1. art. a | |
| 2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one | |
| día |
| 1. n-m. day (any period of 24 hours) | |
| 2. n-m. day (a period from midnight to the following midnight) | |
| 3. n-m. day (rotational period of a planet) | |
| 4. n-m. day (the part of a day period which one spends at work, school, etc.) | |
| 5. n-m. day, daytime (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset) | |
| antes |
| 1. adv. earlier, before, sooner, previously, formerly, beforehand (at an earlier time) | |
| poco antes - shortly before | |
| Nos conocimos antes, ¿te acuerdas? - We met before, remember? | |
| La embajadora llegó antes de lo esperado. - The ambassador arrived sooner than expected | |
| 2. adv. soon (in certain phrases) | |
| Quería que lo supieras cuanto antes. - I wanted to let you know as soon as possible. | |
| Ven a mi casa lo antes posible. - Come over to my place as soon as possible. | |
| 3. adv. ahead (temporally), ahead of (qual, when followed by de) | |
| Bueno, si solo hubieras llamado antes como te dije, ni siquiera estaríamos en esta situación. - Well, if you had just called ahead like I told you to, we wouldn't even be in this situation. | |
| 4. adv. once, formerly (in the past) | |
| Antes todos tenían buscapersonas. - Everyone used to have pagers. | |
| 5. adv. first (before a condition is fulfilled) | |
| 6. adv. rather, sooner (used to specify a preference) | |
| Antes morir que perder. - I'd rather die than lose. | |
| 7. prep. before (earlier than) (qual, triggers the subjunctive in subordinate clauses) | |
| antes de 1910 - before 1910 | |
| antes de que pudiera responder - before I could reply | |
| Antes de ver el documental, no sabíamos nada del tema. - Before watching the documentary, we didn't know anything about the issue. | |
| 8. n. plural of ante | |
| ante |
| 1. prep. in front of, before | |
| Tengo que comparecer ante el juez. - I have to appear before the judge. | |
| 2. prep. against, compared to | |
| 3. n-m. elk | |
| 4. n-m. suede | |
| 5. n-m. (Mexico) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip) | |
| 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 | |
| muerte |
| 1. n-f. death (the cessation of life) | |
| 2. n-f. (often, capitalized) death (the personification of death as a hooded figure) | |
| 3. n-f. death, demise (the collapse or end of something) | |
| Mi esposa dice que será mi muerte. - My wife says it will be the death of me. | |
