3/6 mostly time/days/dates/travel Flashcards
from time to time
de vez encuando
first
primero(a) - drop the -o when preceding a singular masculine noun
museum
el museo
clock
el reloj
third
tercero(a) - like premiro, drop the -o when preceding singular masculine noun
2nd thru 10th
segundo, tercero, cuarto, quinto, sexto, septimo, octavo, noveno, decimo
to break
romper
march
marzo
april
abril
may
mayo
august
agosto
fall
otoño
to celebrate
celebrar
action
acción
november
noviembre
Thanksgiving
literally ‘action of thanks’ Acción de Gracias’
million
un millón
anywhere
en alguna parte/dondequiera
somehow
de algún modo
de alguna manera
someday
algún dia
cual instead of que
use cual instead of que when asking about the date
es el cinco de mayo
for dates, simply use the cardinal number rather than the ordinal number (quinto)
next
el proximo/la proxima - one to the few adjectives that precedes the noun it describes
like (similar)
como
time
la hora - literally means the hour
what time is it?
son las ocho
es la una (one o’clock)
before dawn
antes del amancer
to wake up
despertarse
to be missing/to lack
faltar - to be used when aiming for a goal. when conveying how much is left from the original whole, use quedar
travel from place to place
from new york to washington
desde nueva york hasta washington
desde (lugar) hasta (lugar)
noon
la mediodia
midnight
la media noche
at night
de noche - not to be conused with last night, anoche
to pass
pasar
time (in general)
el tiempo - used when you talk about time as an entity, as in ‘time goes by slowly’. when talking about specific period of time ‘it is time to eat’, use hora, ‘es hora de comer’
on time
a tiempo
time (repetition)
la vez - vez expresses repetition, which tiempo and hora can not
anyway
de todos modos
really (shocked)
en serio(a)
anything
cualquier cosa/algo/todo
