posición |
1. n-f. position | |
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 | |
un |
1. art. a | |
2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one | |
jugador |
1. n-m. player | |
2. n-m. gambler | |
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 | |
fútbol |
1. n-m. football (soccer) | |
con |
1. prep. with | |
2. prep. on | |
Yo cuento con ustedes. - I count on you. | |
ubicación |
1. n-f. position; location | |
inicial |
1. adj. initial | |
2. n-f. initial (first letter of a name or word) | |
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 | |
medio |
1. adj. half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole) | |
media hora - half hour | |
media manzana - half an apple | |
2. adj. (inexact) half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole) | |
Medio Nueva York fue a los toros. - Half of New York went to the bullfight. | |
3. adj. middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives) | |
clase media - middle class | |
4. adj. average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values) | |
velocidad media - average speed | |
5. adj. average (of or related to a representative example of a group) | |
el español medio - the average Spaniard... your typical Spaniard... | |
6. adj. (art) tasteful, bourgeois (well decorated or executed but not sublime) | |
7. adj. (linguistics) mid (of or related to the position of vowel articulation between open and closed) | |
8. adj. (grammar) middle, mediopassive (of or related to grammatical voices neither active nor passive) | |
9. adj. (Chile, slang) impressive (extremely large or good) | |
¡Media bolsa! - Such a huge bag! What an awesome bag! Whatta bag! | |
10. adv. half, incompletely (indicating an action interrupted or only partially done) | |
medio vestido - half-dressed | |
11. adv. half, kind of (particularly used to partially soften negative descriptions) | |
Es medio idiota. - He’s a bit of an idiot... He’s kind of an idiot... | |
12. n-m. half (one of two equal parts of any whole) | |
13. n-m. (math) half (any fraction with a denominator of 2) | |
14. n-m. (historical) medio, half-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L) | |
15. n-m. (historical) medio (the usual container used to measure medios) | |
16. n-m. (historical, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) medio, half-real (a former coin) | |
17. n-m. (historical, Dominican Republic) medio, half-peso (a former coin) | |
18. n-m. (historical, Ecuador) medio, half-sucre (a former coin) | |
19. n-m. (historical, Panama) medio, half-balboa (a former coin) | |
20. n-m. (historical, Bolivia) medio, half-boliviano (a former coin) | |
21. n-m. (historical, Mexico) medio, half-octavo (a former coin equal to frac, 1, 16) real | |
22. n-m. (slang) medio (following decimalization, the notional amount of frac, 6, 1, 4) centavos as half of the notional amount of a frac, 1, 8-peseta real and | |
23. n-m. middle (the part of anything located halfway between its ends or extremes in time or along one dimension in space) | |
Se despertó en medio de la noche. - She awoke in the middle of the night. | |
24. n-m. (sports) midfielder, halfback (a person forming part of the middle or central defensive or offensive line, especially in soccer) | |
25. n-m. spiritualism synonym of médium, t=medium (a person claiming to the ability to communicate with the dead) | |
26. n-m. (politics, business) cut (the payment demanded to permit or facilitate some action, especially as a bribe) | |
27. n-m. (philosophy) middle term (the general category that appears in both premises and disappears in the conclusion) | |
28. n-m. (math, usually in the plural) mean (the second and third terms of a proportion) | |
29. n-m. (inexact) center, heart (the innermost part of anything with regard to all dimensions) | |
Alemania está en medio de Europa. - Germany is in the middle of Europe. | |
en medio de la nada - in the middle of nowhere | |
30. n-m. (often in the plural) method, way, means (the actions or things by which some goal is achieved or intended to be achieved, something serving some purpose) | |
El fin justifica los medios. - The end justifies the means. | |
por todos los medios - by any means | |
Se mejoraron los medios de transporte. - Means of transport were improved. | |
31. n-m. synonym of diligencia, t=diligence, hard work (as the generally effective means to achieve any goal) | |
32. n-m. (usually in the plural) medium (a means of communication, especially mass communication) | |
33. n-m. (physics) medium (the physical space and substance through which some phenomenon occurs) | |
La velocidad de la luz depende del medio. - The speed of light depends on the medium. | |
34. n-m. (art) medium (the physical substances with which art is made) | |
¿Cuál es tu medio de pintura favorito? - What's your favorite painting medium? | |
35. n-m. environment (the circumstances that affect a person or animal's development) | |
36. n-m. society (the circumstances in which a person or group of people lives) | |
37. n-m. (usually in the plural) circle (a particular segment of society) | |
medios aristocráticos - aristocratic circles... the aristocracy... | |
38. n-m. habitat (the circumstances in which an animal or group of animals lives) | |
39. v. first-person singular present indicative of mediar | |
mediar |
1. v. to mediate | |
2. v. to center, to give a central, medium or average value | |
del |
1. contraction. of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular). | |
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 | |
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 | |
campo |
1. n-m. countryside, country | |
En el campo, es tranquilo. - In the countryside, it's peaceful. | |
2. n-m. field (large open area) | |
3. n-m. (sports) pitch, (US) field (field on which soccer, rugby or field hockey is played) | |
campo de fútbol - soccer field | |
4. n-m. (golf) course | |
campo de golf - golf course | |
5. n-m. field (domain of knowledge or practice) | |
6. n-m. (New Mexico, anglicism) camp | |
7. n-m. (physics) field | |
8. v. first-person singular present indicative of campar | |
campar |
1. v. to stand out | |
2. v. (obsolete, intransitive) to camp | |
pero |
1. conj. but | |
Mi casa es pequeña pero cómoda. (My house is small but comfortable.) | |
2. conj. well well; so; well (used for emphasis) | |
3. n-m. but (restriction) | |
debe |
1. v. informal second-person singular affirmative imperative of deber | |
deber |
1. v. to owe | |
Debo mucho dinero. (I owe a lot of money.) | |
2. v. (auxiliary) must, to need to, to have to (rarely used in the conditional with this meaning) | |
Debo estudiar. (I must study.) | |
Eso debe haber sido muy difícil. - That must have been really hard. | |
3. v. (auxiliary) should, to ought to, to be supposed to, to be to | |
Debería haber un plan en marcha. - There should be a plan in place. | |
La gente no debería mensajear y conducir. - People aren't supposed to text and drive. | |
Deberías disculparte. - You ought to apologize. | |
Usted debe despertarse antes del amanecer. - You are to be up before sunrise. | |
Los niños deberían dormir un poco. - The children should get some sleep. | |
4. v. (auxiliary) should have (in the preterite; having haber follow "deber" is optional and not required) | |
Debiste esperarme. - You should have waited for me. | |
Debiste haberme esperado. - You should have waited for me. | |
5. v. (auxiliary) shall (future tense usually) | |
6. v. to be due to, to be attributable to, to be the result of, to be caused by | |
7. v. (with de and infinitive) probably or most likely do or happen something (add a degree of insecurity to the verb) | |
Debes de viajar por avión, China está muy lejos. (You should probably travel by plane, China is very far away.) | |
8. n-m. obligation, duty | |
9. n-m. debt | |
10. n-m. should, ought (modal noun) | |
11. n-m. (usually in the plural) homework | |
recorrer |
1. v. to tour | |
2. v. to travel, to go | |
Todavía hay un largo camino por recorrer antes de que el sistema funcione sin problemas. - There is still a long way to go before the system runs smoothly. | |
las |
1. art. the | |
2. pron. accusative of ellas and ustedes (when referring to more than one woman); them, you all (formal) | |
3. pron. feminine plural pronoun | |
las que no hablan - those (women) who do not speak | |
4. n. plural of la | |
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) | |
bandas |
1. n. plural of banda | |
banda |
1. n-f. (music) band (musical group) | |
2. n-f. gang, band, group | |
3. n-f. band, sash | |
4. n-f. (heraldry) bend | |
laterales |
1. adj. plural of lateral | |
2. n. plural of lateral | |
lateral |
1. adj. lateral, to the side | |
2. adj. (linguistics) lateral | |
3. n. (football) full-back, fullback (a player who plays on the left or right side of defence) | |
4. n. (linguistics) lateral | |
sirviendo |
1. v. gerund of servir | |
Como |
1. Proper noun. Como (city and capital of Como) | |
2. adv. as (to such an extent or degree) | |
No es tan alta como nosotras. - She's not as tall as us. | |
3. adv. like, about (approximately) | |
Hemos esperado como media hora. - We've waited like half an hour. | |
4. conj. as (introducing a basis of comparison or equality) | |
¿Tienes tanta hambre como yo? - Are you as hungry as I am? | |
5. conj. as, since (being that) | |
Como nunca vio mi mensaje, vamos sin ella. - Since she never saw my message, we're going without her. | |
6. conj. how (in which way) | |
Me gusta como hablas. - I like how you talk. | |
7. conj. (followed by the subjunctive) if, unless (under the condition that) | |
Como llegues tarde otra vez, ¡te mato! - If you arrive late again, I'll kill you! | |
8. prep. as (in the manner or role specified) | |
Mis ahijados me ven como un tío. - My godchildren see me as an uncle. | |
9. prep. such as (for example) | |
Algunos países de Asia, como Laos y Vietnam... - Some countries in Asia, such as Laos and Vietnam... | |
10. prep. like (similar to, reminiscent of) | |
Llevan gafas redondas como las de John Lennon. - They wear round glasses like John Lennon's. | |
11. v. first-person singular present indicative of comer | |
comer |
1. v. to eat | |
¿Cómo como? ¿Cómo cómo como? ¡Como como como! (classroom example of written accent) - How do I eat? What do you mean, how do I eat? I eat like I eat! | |
2. v. (colloquial) to eat away, corrode | |
3. v. to capture a piece | |
4. v. (double entendre, Mexico) to have sexual intercourse (because of similarity to coger) | |
5. n-m. eating, food | |
quitárselo uno de su comer - to deprive oneself of something for the benefit of others | |
el comer fuera es muy común - eating out is very common | |
...necesario para el alma como el comer para el cuerpo - ...necessary for the soul like food for the body | |
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 | |
línea |
1. n-f. (math) line (a straight path through two or more points) | |
2. n-f. line (a piece of spoken dialogue in a script) | |
3. n-f. line (a path for electrical current) | |
4. n-f. telephone line (a physical telephone connection or a single telephony account) | |
5. n-f. party line (an established policy that politicians should adhere to) | |
6. n-f. (figurative) line (similar directives in business and other contexts) | |
7. n-f. policy (the actual regulations and behavior of government agencies) | |
línea dura - hard or strict government policy | |
8. n-f. (slang) line (a long thin pile of cocaine or other drug) | |
9. n-f. (historical) linea, Spanish line (a traditional small unit of length, equivalent to 1.9 mm) | |
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 | |
defensa |
1. n-f. defense | |
2. n-f. retaining wall | |
3. n-f. (automotive) bumper | |
4. n-m. (sports) back | |
Y |
1. Letter. the 26th letter of the Spanish alphabet | |
2. conj. and | |
3. conj. (in names of number) and | |
setenta y seis - seventy-six | |
4. conj. (in arithmetic) plus, and | |
uno y uno son dos - one plus one is two | |
5. conj. (informal) well | |
¡Y por supuesto! - Well, of course! | |
6. conj. (informal) what about, how about, where is/are the | |
Pero, ¿y el concierto? ¿Ya no vamos? - But what about the concert? Are we not going anymore? | |
¿Y la niña? ¿Está a salvo? - How about the girl? Is she safe? | |
¿Y los archivos? Debo echarles un vistazo. - Where are the files? I should take a look at them. | |
también |
1. adv. also, too, as well | |
Y tu mamá también - And your mother, as well. | |
2. adv. so | |
también lo hace el / la… - so does the… | |
apoyando |
1. v. gerund of apoyar | |
apoyar |
1. v. to lean, to rest, to lie or lay | |
2. v. to support, to get behind (to back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid) | |
3. v. to support (to keep from falling) | |
Te apoyo. - I've got your back. | |
4. v. to lean, to rest, to be supported | |
5. v. to lean on, to rely on | |
6. v. to be based, to be founded | |
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. | |
los |
1. art. the | |
¿Qué hacen los muchachos? - What do the boys do? | |
2. pron. accusative of ellos and ustedes (when referring to more than one man); them, you all (formal) | |
3. pron. plural masculine or neuter pronoun | |
los que no hablan - those who do not speak | |
delanteros |
1. adj. masculine plural of delantero | |
2. n. plural of delantero | |
delantero |
1. adj. front | |
2. adj. forward | |
3. n-m. (soccer) forward, striker | |