mantener |
1. v. to keep | |
Mantenga la tapa cerrada, por favor. - Keep the lid closed, please. | |
2. v. to maintain, to support | |
Yo mantengo a mis hijos. - I support my children. | |
3. v. to sustain, to preserve, to retain, to uphold | |
4. v. to maintain, continue, to keep up | |
Mantengan el buen trabajo. - Keep up the good work. | |
5. v. to stay, to remain | |
6. v. to maintain, to keep, to stay, to remain | |
Me voy a mantener despierto toda la noche estudiando la gramática española. - I'm going to stay lit. keep myself awake all night studying Spanish grammar. | |
7. v. to stand, to hold, to remain, to continue (e.g. hold firm, stand strong, stand together, stand on one's feet) | |
Debemos mantenernos firmes exigiendo libertad. - We must stand firm in demanding freedom. | |
8. v. to stick to (e.g. stick to one's guns) | |
9. v. to be maintained, to be retained, to be sustained | |
algo |
1. pron. something, anything | |
Algo imprevisto ocurrió. - Something unexpected happened. | |
Me parece algo de interés. - It seems like something interesting to me. | |
Eso es algo natural. - It's something natural. | |
2. adv. rather, somewhat, kind of | |
Me parece algo extraño. - It seems rather strange to me. | |
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 | |
tal |
1. adj. such | |
No hay tal cosa como los monstruos. - There's no such thing as monsters. | |
forma |
1. n-f. shape; form; figure | |
2. n-f. way; manner | |
¡Tiene que haber otra forma! - There has to be another way! | |
3. n-f. basis; method | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of formar | |
formar |
1. v. to form, to create | |
2. v. to train, to educate | |
3. v. to make up, to constitute | |
4. v. to line up (to get in a line) | |
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 | |
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. | |
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 | |
mueva |
1. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of mover | |
mover |
1. v. to move (to cause to change place or posture) | |
2. v. to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather) | |
3. v. to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes) | |
4. v. to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging) | |
5. v. to move to, to cause to | |
6. v. to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail) | |
7. v. to move (to change place or posture) | |
8. v. to shift | |
La tierra se movió. - The ground shifted. | |
9. v. to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel) | |
10. v. to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner) | |
La bebé no se movió para nada toda la noche. - The baby didn't stir at all the entire night. | |
¡Deja de moverte! - Stop fidgeting! | |
11. v. to get a move on (idiom) | |
12. v. to be moved (by a performance, etc.) | |