| 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. | |
| es |
| 1. v. third-person singular present indicative of ser; (he/she/it/one) is | |
| 2. n. plural of e | |
| ser |
| 1. v. to be (essentially or identified as) | |
| Yo soy de los Estados Unidos. - I am from the United States. | |
| Errar es humano. - To err is human. | |
| 2. v. to be (in the passive voice sense) | |
| La guitarra fue tocada. - The guitar was played. | |
| 3. v. to exist; to occur | |
| La fiesta será mañana. - The party will be tomorrow. | |
| 4. n-m. a being, organism | |
| 5. n-m. nature, essence | |
| 6. n-m. value, worth | |
| e |
| 1. conj. and | |
| Yo hablo francés e inglés. - I speak French and English. | |
| buena |
| 1. n-f. (obsolete) inheritance | |
| 2. adj. feminine singular of bueno | |
| 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? | |
| idea |
| 1. n-f. idea | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of idear | |
| idear |
| 1. v. to devise, to come up with | |
| hablar |
| 1. v. to talk; to speak; to communicate using words | |
| Hablamos del proyecto. - We talk about the project. | |
| ¿Ya hablaste con él? - Did you already speak with him? | |
| 2. v. to speak (a language) | |
| Hablo inglés. - I speak English. | |
| Hablo bien el inglés. - I speak English well. | |
| No hablo inglés. - I don't speak English. | |
| No hablo bien el inglés. - I don't speak English well. | |
| mal |
| 1. adj. (before the noun) apocopic form of malo bad; evil | |
| 2. adj. amiss, awry, off, wrong | |
| Me di cuenta de que algo estaba mal. - I realized something was amiss. | |
| 3. adv. badly, poorly, ill | |
| No hables mal de los muertos. - Don't speak ill of the dead. | |
| Qué mal. - Too bad. / That's too bad. | |
| 4. adv. awry, amiss, wrong, wrongly | |
| Tu plan maestro salió mal bastante rápido - Your master plan went awry pretty quickly. | |
| 5. adv. hard (functions as an adverb in Spanish but translates as an adjective in English) | |
| Estoy pasándolo mal con todo ahora mismo. - I'm just having a hard time with everything right now. | |
| 6. n-m. evil, harm; a bad thing or situation | |
| de mal en peor - from bad to worse | |
| 7. n-m. disease, illness, ailment | |
| ... le curaremos, si es que su mal tiene cura... - ... we shall cure him, if his ailment has a cure... | |
| 8. n-m. worse (substantive) | |
| para bien o para mal - for better or for worse | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| de la |
| 1. art. of the | |
| gente |
| 1. n-f. people | |
