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Summer

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El Verano

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Autumn

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El Otoño

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Winter

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El Invierno

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Spring

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La Primavera

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Monday

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lunes

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Tuesday

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martes

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Wednesday

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miércoles

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Thursday

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jueves

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Friday

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viernes

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Saturday

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sábado

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Sunday

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domingo

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The Weekend

(This weekend, I’m going to see my friends.)

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El fin de semana

Este fin de semana voy a ver a mis amigas.

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Week days

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dias de la semana

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Are days of the week capitalised?

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No

In English, failing to capitalize the days of the week is a grammar error. But in Spanish, the opposite is true—capitalizing is grammatically incorrect. The only exception is if they appear as the first word of a sentence.

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Are days of the week masculine or feminine?

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Masculine

The days of the week are gendered since they’re nouns. Luckily, this is easy to remember because all days are masculine. This means that when referring to a day, you must use the masculine articles el, los, un and algunos.

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Preposition for days

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  • El
  • Los

In English, we use the preposition “on” to talk about something happening on a specific day. Resist the urge to translate directly—in Spanish, you don’t need to insert the word en, or any other preposition, for that matter! When talking about days of the week, use the pronouns el and los to mean “on.” Use el when talking about one single occurrence and the plural los when talking about something that happens habitually.

Example

Viene a Madrid el lunes.
(She’s coming to Madrid on Monday.)

Trabaja todos los sábados.
(He works every Saturday.)

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What days change for plural form?

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Only sábado and domingo change in plural form

Sometimes, you need to talk about days of the week in the plural, like in the previous example (“todos los sábados”).

When making days of the week plural, only add an –s if the word doesn’t already end in –s (in other words, only add -s to sábado and domingo). Otherwise, the word stays the same in the plural form.

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Plural form of monday

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Los lunes

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Plural form of tuesday

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Los martes

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Plural form of wednesday

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Los miércoles

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Plural form of thursday

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Los jueves

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Plural form of friday

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Los viernes

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Plural form of saturday

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Los sábados

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Plural form of Sunday

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Los domingos

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Ser or estar for days of the week

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Ser

When talking about which day of the week it is, you’ll always use ser instead of estar. This might be confusing at first since estar is usually used when describing things that are transient, but with practice, you’ll get the hang of it. Take a look at some examples:

Hoy es martes. (Today is Tuesday.)

El juego es el miércoles. (The game is on Wednesday.)

Mi cumpleaños es el próximo viernes. (My birthday is next Friday.)

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What day is today?

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Qué día es hoy?

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Today is

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Hoy es..

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Tomorrow is

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Mañana es…

Mañana es martes.
(Tomorrow is Tuesday.)

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Yesterday was

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Ayer fue…

Ayer fue domingo.
(Yesterday was Sunday.)

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The day

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El día

¿Qué día es hoy?
(What day is today?)

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The date

What is the date today?

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La fecha

¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?

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Next

(Next Monday is my birthday!)

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El próximo

¡El próximo lunes es mi cumpleaños!

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The upcoming…

We’re going to Barcelona this upcoming Friday.

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Que viene…

Vamos a Barcelona el viernes que viene.

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The folllowing…

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Siguiente…

No empieza el curso el próximo lunes, sino el lunes siguiente.
(The class doesn’t begin next Monday, but rather, the following Monday.)

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Last

Last Saturday, we went to the beach.

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Pasado

El sábado pasado, fuimos a la playa.

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Previous

I didn’t see her last Friday, but rather, the previous Friday.

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Anterior

No la vi el viernes pasado, sino el viernes anterior.

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The week

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La semana

Hay siete días en la semana.
(There are seven days in a week.)

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Every

(I have math class every Thursday

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Cada / Todos los…

Cada jueves tengo clase de matemáticas./Tengo clase de matemáticas todos los jueves..)

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Midweek

I travel on the weekends, but I stay at home during the week.

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Entre semana

Viajo los fines de semana, pero me quedo en casa entre semana.

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The first __ of the month

(There is a party on the first Saturday of June.)

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El primer… del mes

Hay una fiesta el primer sábado de junio.

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From __ to __

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De… a…

Trabajo de lunes a viernes.
(I work from Monday to Friday.)

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From __ to __

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Desde… hasta…

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acronym of days of week

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Little
Mice
Make
Jolly
Vikings
Slam
Doors

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January

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enero

eh-neh-roh

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February

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febrero

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March

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marzo

mahr-soh (Latin America)
mahr-thoh (Spain)

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April

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abril

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May

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mayo

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June

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Junio

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July

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julio

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August

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agosto

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September

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septiembre

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October

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octubre

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November

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noviembre

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December

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diciembre

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Are spanish months capitalised?

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No,

, in Spanish, the names of the months are never capitalized—unless, of course, they’re at the beginning of a title or sentence.

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Gender of months

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They are all masculine

All of the Spanish months have masculine gender, so remember that if you want to modify any month with an adjective, you must use the masculine form of the adjective.

Fue un agosto muy caluroso.
It was a very hot August.

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Spring

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La Primavera

lah pree-mah-VEHR-ah

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Spring

flower

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La flor

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Spring

breeze

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La brisa

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Spring

butterfly

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La mariposa

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Spring

cloudy

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Nublado

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Spring

clear sky

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Cielo despejado

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Spring

Spring cleaning

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La limpieza general

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Spring

to get warmer

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Hacer más calor

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Spring

plant

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La planta

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Spring

to bloom

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Florecer

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Spring

Easter

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La Pascua

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Summer

Summer

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El Verano

ehl vehr-AH-noh

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Summer

sunny

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Soleado

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Summer

to get a tan

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Summer

sunburn

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Summer

to sunbathe

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Summer

to swim

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Summer

to go on vacation

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Summer

pool

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Summer

sunscreen

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Summer

sunglasses

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Summer

swimsuit

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El traje de baño

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Spring

bud

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el capullo

Spanish emphasise poo

kah-poo-yoh

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Spring

leaf

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la hoja

oh-hah

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Spring

stem

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el tallo

tah-yoh
Emphasis on tah

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Spring

root

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la raíz

rrah-eeth (Spain)
Emphasise the ending

rrah-eeth (Spain)

rrah-ees (Latin America)
rrah -eeth (Spain)

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Spring

petal

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el pétalo

peh-tah-loh
Emphasis on peh

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Spring

seed

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la semilla/la simiente

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Spring

poppy

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la amapola

ah -mah-poh-lah
Spanish emphasise poh

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Spring

sunflower

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el girasol

hee-rah-sohl (Spain)

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Spring

daffodil

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el narciso

nahr-see-soh (Latin America)
nahr-thee-soh (Spain)

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Spring

daisy

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la margarita

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Spring

lily

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la azucena

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Spring

iris

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el lirio

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Spring

to grow, increase

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crecer

El girasol crece debajo del sol/ The sunflower grows under the sun.

Crecer is the verb you’d use to speak about plants growing:
But it doesn’t just pertain to plants. It can also be used to refer to growth and increase in terms of humans, plants, grades, rent, prices, taxes

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Spring

to blossom/open

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florecer, abrirse

Cada día los pétalos de las prímulas se abren/ Every day the petals of the primroses open
Odio que las malas hierbas florezcan en mi jardín/ I hate that weeds flourish in my garden.

Florecer and abrirse are synonyms and can both be used to talk about flowers blooming.

Abrirse is the reflexive form of abrir, meaning “to open.” When you add the reflexive pronoun se to the verb, its meaning changes to “to open oneself, to open up,” which is exactly what flowers do when they bloom:

Florecer, on the other side of la hoja (the leaf), has other meanings. It can also be used to mean “to flourish” and “to prosper,” so you can use it when talking about plants but also in reference to other things that do well, like your botany business, for instance. Here it is in relation to nature:

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Spring

to dig

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cavar

Cava el agujero aquí, por favor/ Dig the hole here, please

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Spring

to water

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regar

Es importante que riegues las plantas nuevas/ It’s important that you water new plants.

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Spring

to plant

I planted daisies and poppies close to the tree

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plantar

Planté las margaritas y las amapolas cerca del árbol.

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Spring

to sprout

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germinar, brotar, echar

Although all three of the verbs above mean “to sprout,” they each have their own nuances.

Echar is one of those complicated Spanish verbs that have multiple meanings, such as: “to throw,” “to pour,” “to emit,” “to send,” “to reckon,” “to fire,” “to begin” and many more. To use it as “to sprout,” you’d say:

Las semillas echan de la tierra. (The seeds sprout from the earth.)

Germinar is a more specific way to say “to sprout,” and it’s used exclusively when speaking about seeds. In fact, you might have noticed that it sounds like the English word “to germinate”!

Brotar is another way to say “to sprout”:

El arce japonés brota hojas rojas. (The Japanese maple sprouts red leaves.)

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Spring

bright, vibrantly-colored

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brillante

El lirio anaranjado tiene pétalos brillantes/ The orange iris has bright petals

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Spring

verdant (leafy)

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verde

Las yerbas del prado son verdes y blandas/ The meadow grasses are verdant and soft

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Spring

glorious

The pond with waterlilies, frogs and fish is glorious

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espléndido

La balsa con los lirios acuáticos, las ranas y los peces es espléndida/

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Spring

hardy

That dandelion is the worst weed because it’s very hardy.

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resistente

Ese diente de león es la peor mala hierba porque es muy resistente/

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Spring

lush

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exuberante, lozano

El parque tiene mucho arboles y flores lozanos./ The park has many lush trees and flowers.

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Spring

leafy

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frondoso

La hortensia es una flor verde y frondosa./ The hydrangea is a verdant and leafy flower.

104
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Spring

pollen

(Bees love pollen, but allergy sufferers hate it.)

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el polen

Las abejas aman el polen, pero los alérgicos lo odian.

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Spring

dander

Dander is material shed from the body of humans and other animals that have fur, hair, or feathers.

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la caspa

No quieres saber cuáles materiales asquerosos encuentras en la caspa. (You don’t want to know what gross stuff you’ll find in dander.)

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