11 Flashcards
Outgoings
Egresos
Uneasiness, worry, anxiety
Zozobra
To erect
Erigir
Comfortably or easily
Holgadamente
To have to luxury/liberty of
Darse el lujo
Outbreak; shoot or sprout
Brote
To demonise
Satanizar
To recover or pick up
Repuntar
It is spitting (2 forms)
Está chispeando
Está el chipichipi
To excite, agitate, unsettle
2 forms
Alebrestar
Alborotar
To be annoyed/offended
MX phrase
Estar sentido
To instill e.g. values
Inculcar
To make it easy/hard
Poner fácil/difícil
To be far from
Distar
To contradict
Contradecir
Cabin, hut, sentry box
2 forms
Garita
Caseta
Dreamlike
De ensueño
Sour-faced
Malencarado
To cry or weep
Whiney; a whiney person
Chillar
Chillón
With God’s will
A la buena de dios
Barefoot
Descalza
Goose
El ganso
Suit jacket
Saco
The tide
La marea
To bounce
Rebotar
An exchange or swap
2 forms
El trueque
El canje
Background, backdrop
Fondo
Novel, original
Novedoso
Piece of news; novelty
La novedad
To annihilate, destroy
Aniquilar
Facing (a person) (2 forms)
My desk is facing the window
Frente a frente; cara a cara
Mi escritorio está frente la ventana
Wild (animal)
Wild (plant)
Salvaje
Silvestre
Native
Indígena
In the middle of the night
En la mitad de la noche
In the middle of the city
En el centro
As a rule
En regla general
It’s not surprising
No es de extrañar
I am in the middle of my chores
Estoy a la mitad de mis quehaceres
In the middle of (the week/month)
At the beginning of ^
At the end of ^
A mediados de…
A principios de…
A finales de…
To trap, corner
Acorralar
To not know
Desconocer
The eve (formal)
La víspera
To take advantage of, abuse (Mx)
Encajar
To keep safe
Resguardar
To get more rubbish
Chafear
Sharp, cunning, clever
Mx
Abusado
Despite
2 forms
Pese a
A pesar de
Soft
2 forms
Suave
Blando
To grant, award
Otorgar
A shithole; a bad neighbourhood
De mala muerte
6 in the afternoon
Seis de la tarde
The sun goes down
Se mete el sol
There are various ways to say it
There are lots of ways to start
There are 3 ways to learn
Hay varias maneras de decirlo
Hay muchas maneras de empezar
Hay 3 maneras de aprender
There’s no two ways about it; there’s no other way; that’s the way it is.
No hay vuelta de hoja
Sceptical
Escéptico
Tourist attractions
Atractivos turísticos
To label/mark as (in negative form)
Tachar de
Car accident
Accidente automovilístico
To drain
The drainage or drain
Drenar
El drenaje
Let me know when you’re 5 minutes from the café
Avísame cuando estés a 5 minutos del café
I managed to leave…
3 forms
Alcancé a salir
Logré salir
Llegué a salir
Scales (e.g. bathroom)
Báscula
Passer-by
Transeúnte
Bottleneck
Embotellamiento
Glovebox
Guantera
Billboard
Espectacular
Thanks in advance
De antemano gracias
A well
Un pozo
A damn
Una presa
To dig (3 forms)
Cavar (manual)
Excavar (con máquina)
Escarbar
Feel free, without shame
Con confianza
A minor crime, a misdemeanour
Fechoría
To get ready to
I’m getting ready to
Disponerse a
Me dispongo a
There’s no way
Mx
Ni madres!
I wish I could
2 forms
Espero poder
Espero que pudiera
No sooner said than done
Dicho y hecho
Look… or notice… (imperative)
Haz de cuenta
To pounce
Echarse encima
He doesn’t mince his words
No tiene pelos en la lengua
Slide or chute
Resbaladilla
Steep
Empinado
Good to see you (formal)
Me alegro de verlo/la
To award (e.g. contract)
Adjudicar
Muscular (slang)
Mamado
Jerk (vulgar slang)
Ñero
To bellow, bawl, howl
Berrear
As quickly as possible
Slang
De volada
To sleep (slang)
Jetearse
Conceited, vain
Engreído
To chip in (colloquial)
Mocharse
To yield, produce: to be enough, to reach
Rendir
Great uncle
Tío abuelo
Court
La corte
Bail
Fianza
Firewood
Leña
Aircraft carrier
El portaaviones
Disabled
Discapacitado
Affiliated
Afiliado
To clear (e.g. room), To clear up (doubts), To clear up (no clouds)
Despejar
Case (eg pillow)
Funda
Taco chef
Taquero
To flinch
Inmutarse
Typo (2 forms)
Error de dedo
Dedazo
It would seem
Al parecer
Since a long time ago
Desde cuando
To vacate, move out of, evacuate
Desalojar
Bad-tempered
Malhumorado
To seize, arrest
Apresar
To set off fireworks
Echar cohetes
Eat out of habit
Comer por gula
Fugitive
2 forms
Fugitivo
Prófugo
To hallucinate, to be out of your mind
Alucinar
Very sensitive, emotional
Chípil
Term (duration or phrase)
Término
To rob (3 forms)
Asaltar a
Atracar a
Robar
To speak bad about someone
2 forms
Echar tierra a alguien
Tirarle a alguien
To loot or plunder
Saquear
To piece things together
Atar cabos
Crumbs (2 forms)
To crumble
Migajas; moronas (sólo pan)
Desmoronar
Wisdom
2 forms
Sensatez
Sabiduría
Go and… (fuck yourself)
Vas y…. (chinga a tu madre)
To run away; to chase away
Fugar
An escape
2 forms
La fuga
La huida
A pact
To make a pact
Done deal!
Pacto
Pactar
Pacto hecho
To deal with; to dispatch; to fire
Despachar
To perceive
Perceived
Unnoticed
Percibir
Percibido
Desapercibido
I have most trouble with listening
Tengo más problemas para entender
To blend in, camouflage
Mimetizar
How the body feels before a cold, weak
Cuerpo cortado
To go downhill, deteriorate
Decaer
To be in low spirits
Andar de capa caída
Carriage (of train or metro)
El vagón
To miss out or skip; to jump or hop or skip; to jump out at someone/immediately attract attention
Brincar
Because
Why?
The reason why
Porque
Por qué?
El porqué
To tend to
Tender a
It’s nothing! (After thanks)
(No hay) de que!
To swell
A swelling
Hincharse
La hinchazón
So so; I’m working on it; I’m doing ok
Mx phrase
Ahí la llevo
To play dumb (Mx)
Hacerse güey
Ear wax
2 forms
Cerilla
Cerumen
…it wasn’t any worse! (Eg how lucky)
No pasó a mayores
To pee (Mx)
Hacerse (el baño)
Tiresome; a pain in the neck
Latoso
A person that had an accident
Accidentado
A gift, talent
El don
Do you think it’ll fit?
Crees que quepa?
Catwalk
Pasarela
To resume
Reanudar
He attempted to leave
Intentó salir
I taught them to listen
Les ensañé a escuchar
Let’s go up to eat dinner
Let’s go down to eat breakfast
Subamos a cenar
Bajemos a desayunar
I decided to arrive early
Decidí llegar temprano
Can you help me do it?
Me puedes ayudar a hacerlo?
I’m learning to play the guitar
Estoy aprendiendo a tocar la guitarra.
Don’t you dare talk during the exam
No te atrevas a hablar durante el examen.
They agreed to go out at 5 in the afternoon
Quedaron en salir a las 5 de la tarde
He threatened to leave
Amenazó con irse
I’m counting on you
Cuento contigo
He took a long time to arrive
Tardó en llegar
He complained about having to pay
He complained that he had to pay
Se quejó de (por) tener que pagar
Se quejó que tenía que pagar
I’m growing tired of hearing this song
Me canso de escuchar esta rola
I don’t regret asking
No me arrepiento de haber preguntado
I remembered to do it
Me acordé de hacerlo
I will take care of taking them
Me encargaré de llevarlos
I forgot to let them know
Se me olvidó (de) avisarles
It’s difficult to cut the fruit
The fruit is difficult to cut
The coconut is very hard. It’s very hard to cut
Es difícil cortar la fruta.
La fruta es difícil de cortar.
El coco es muy duro. Es muy difícil de cortar.
To guess right
Atinarle
Lightness
Ligereza
A dirty trick
Una mala jugada
What the future has for me
Lo que el destino me depara
Fellow man, neighbour
Prójimo
To skid, slide
Barrerse
Opponent (in game)
Contrincante
Trending (eg online)
Tendencia
The sun is coming up
Sale el sol
To get dark
Oscurecer(se)
To get light
Aclarecer(se)
That word has an accent
Esa palabra lleva tilde
Chilling, frightening
Escalofriante
To appear, to look, to look good
Lucir
To get a big head
Subirse la cabeza
Fact; happening
Suceso
A correct answer
Acierto
The soup will have meat (e.g. a recipe)
The soup has meat
La sopa lleva carne
La sope tiene carne
She is 10 years older than him
Le lleva 10 años
Useless or bad; to not have the capacity
No dar una
Look out of the corner of one’s eye
Ver de reojo
Whatever it takes, no matter what
A cómo de lugar
It happened to a friend
Le pasó a un amigo
To be present
Presenciar
Limelight
Protagonismo
A spill or spillage
2 forms
Derramamiento
Derrame
To undergo; to submit; to control aggressively
Someter
Punishment, sanction
Sanción
He plays for Barca
He plays near Barca
Juega para Barca
Juega por Barca
Fibula
El peroné
To tell him off
To tell her off
Regañarlo
Regañarla
To block someone (e.g. in football)
Trabar
Nosy
Metiche
Bitter, someone that hols a grudge
Rencoroso
