| mi |
| 1. det. (before the noun) apocopic form of mío, my | |
| 2. n-f. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ | |
| madre |
| 1. n-f. mother | |
| 2. n-f. (figuratively) mother (source or origin) | |
| 3. n-f. (Christianity) mother (nun) | |
| 4. n-f. (hydrology) riverbed | |
| 5. n-f. dregs (of a drink) | |
| 6. n-f. (Mexico, colloquial, vulgar, slang) thing | |
| me |
| 1. pron. personal accusative of yo: me | |
| 2. pron. personal;dative pronoun dative of yo: to me, for me | |
| 3. pron. personal;reflexive pronoun of yo: myself | |
| hizo |
| 1. v. third-person singular preterite indicative of hacer | |
| hacer |
| 1. v. to do | |
| ¿Qué haces? - What are you doing? | |
| No sé que hago. - I don't know what I'm doing. | |
| Prefiero no hacerlo - I prefer not to do it. | |
| 2. v. to make (something) | |
| Empecemos a hacer el pastel. - Let's start making the cake. | |
| Le gustaba hacer poemas placenteros. - She liked to make pleasant poems. | |
| 3. v. to make (e.g. someone do something or feel a certain way.) | |
| No sabe cómo hacerla feliz. - He doesn't know how to make her happy. | |
| Lo hiciste llorar / Hiciste que llorara. - You made him cry. | |
| 4. v. to be | |
| hace frío - it's cold | |
| hace calor - it's hot | |
| hace sol - it's sunny | |
| hace viento - it's windy | |
| 5. v. to go (to release or excrete (urine, excrement)) | |
| hacer pis, pipí, el número uno - to pee | |
| hacer caca, pupú, el número dos - to poo | |
| 6. v. (ambitransitive, optionally with de) to play (a part in a play) | |
| hacer la princesa - to play the princess | |
| hacer de princesa - to play a princess | |
| hacer de Óscar - to play (the character of) Oscar | |
| 7. v. to become; to get | |
| ¡Hazte vegetariano! - Become vegetarian! | |
| Me haré rico. - I will get rich. | |
| Ese niño se hizo todo un hombre. - That boy became a real man. | |
| 8. v. to pretend being, play | |
| hacerse el tonto - to pretend being a fool, play the fool | |
| hacerse la víctima - to play the victim | |
| Háganse los sofisticados si quieren, igual nadie les cree. - You can pretend to be sophisticated if you want, no one believes you anyway. | |
| 9. v. to play the fool | |
| No te hagás: vos sabés lo que hiciste. - Don't play the fool, you know what you did. | |
| 10. v. to prep, adorn, do (a body part) | |
| hacerse las uñas - to do one's nails | |
| 11. v. to get used to (chiefly in idioms) | |
| El cuerpo se hace a las fatigas. - The body gets used to tiredness. | |
| El caballo se hace al fuego. - A horse gets used to fire (for the Luminarias). | |
| 12. v. to arrive (said of a certain time), be now | |
| Se hace tarde. - It's getting late. | |
| Se hicieron las doce. - It was now/suddenly 12 o'clock. | |
| 13. n-m. task, action | |
| Nos quedan muchos haceres. - We have a lot of tasks left. | |
| limpiar |
| 1. v. to clean | |
| 2. v. to wash | |
| 3. v. to wipe | |
| 4. v. to wipe oneself | |
| 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 | |
| cuarto |
| 1. adj. (ordinal) fourth | |
| 2. n-m. fourth (in a series) | |
| 3. n-m. fourth, quarter (one of four equal divisions of a whole) | |
| 4. n-m. quarter-hour (one of four equal divisions of an hour) | |
| 5. n-m. (historical) watch (one of the four approximately equal divisions of the night, especially for shifts of watchmen) | |
| 6. n-m. (military) watch (one of the four equal divisions of soldiers, guards, police, &c. for routine patrols) | |
| 7. n-m. English or American quart (a unit of liquid measure equal to (frac, 1, 4) galón, equivalent to about 0.95 L) | |
| 8. n-m. (historical) cuarto, quarter-sack (a traditional unit of dry measure equal to frac, 1, 4) saco, equivalent to about 27.8 L | |
| 9. n-m. quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of quadrapeds and birds) | |
| 10. n-m. (historical) quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of criminals for public display) | |
| 11. n-m. (sewing) quarter (one of four main pieces of cloth used to tailor a garment) | |
| 12. n-m. (astronomy) quarter (one of the four main phases of a heavenly body as it waxes and wanes in the sky) | |
| cuarto creciente - first quarter | |
| cuarto menguante - last quarter | |
| 13. n-m. (genealogy) line, lineage (any of the four main lines of ancestry through one's various grandparents) | |
| 14. n-m. quarters (various structures used for dwelling) | |
| 15. n-m. synonym of sala, t=room | |
| 16. n-m. synonym of habitación, t=bedroom | |
| 17. n-m. synonym of piso, t=apartment | |
| 18. n-m. watch, shift (the time that a soldier, guard, police, etc. spends on patrol) | |
| 19. n-m. lot (a piece of real estate, especially one of the divisions of a large piece of land being put to sale) | |
| 20. n-m. service (particularly to a king or queen) | |
| cuarto militar de su majestad Bob VII. - military service to His Majesty Bob VII | |
| 21. n-m. (chiefly in the plural) well-proportioned limbs (especially in discussion of art and horses) | |
| 22. n-m. (historical) cuarto (a former copper Spanish coin) | |
| 23. n-m. Andalusian, Dominican Republic, slang, in the plural synonym of dinero, t=money | |
| 24. n-m. slang, in the plural synonym of dinero, t=a fortune | |
| 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 | |
| baño |
| 1. n-m. bath | |
| 2. n-m. bathroom | |
| 3. n-m. toilet | |
| 4. v. first-person singular present indicative of bañar | |
| bañar |
| 1. v. to bathe (to clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath) | |
| 2. v. to soak, to dip in | |
| 3. v. to bathe oneself | |
| Voy a bañarme esta noche. - I am going to bathe (myself) tonight. | |
| cuarto de baño |
| 1. n-m. bathroom | |
| Mi cuarto de baño está al lado de mi dormitorio. - My bathroom is next to my bedroom. | |
