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wherever, anywhere
dondequiera
within range / within reach
al alcance
adressee / payee
un destinatario
sold out / exhausted
agotado
busy [i.e. a place is]
concurrido
more often
más a menudo
mortgage
una hipoteca
window
la ventana
let me know [2 ways]
hazme saber / déjame saber
rucksack
una mochila
cloud
un nube
unlikely [2 ways]
poco probable / improbable
hardly, scarcely [2 ways]
apenas / casi no
painting [noun]
un cuadro
to take, catch, get, pick
coger
to welcome
acoger
to shrink [2 words]
encoger / encogerse
to choose, pick
escoger
coger would be more like pick up and escoger like choose something
meanings of recoger [3]
to collect / to pick up / to tidy up
amend
enmendar (ie stem change)
swallow
tragar
perform (well), provide, yield (something)
rendir [i only stem change like pedir]
I burnt my tongue with hot coffee
me quemé la lengua con café caliente
to cancel [2 words]
anular / cancelar
to emphasise, to highlight
destacar
to stand out
destacarse
do this so that this will happen.
haz esto para que esto suceda.
twice a day
dos veces al día
to find out, ascertain [2 words]
averiguar / enterarse
to be to die for (delicious, amazing)
estar de muerte
to be very expensive [idiom]
estar por las nubes
to be really good [idiom]
estar de cine
to give birth
dar a luz
Can I pay when you’re ready? [idiom from Spanish with Vicky]
Perdona, ¿me cobras?, cuando puedas
it takes me 20 minutes to arrive
tardo 20 minutos en llegar
(tardar often means to ‘take time’, though it can also mean ‘to take too much time’)
pavement, sidewalk
la acera
a fat man
un hombre grande [the order matters]
to store
almacenar
I don’t get it
no lo pillo
check out…
echa un vistazo a…
at yours or mine [about houses][2 ways]
en tu casa o en la mía / en la tuya o en la mía
nor / not even
ni
neither… nor…
ni… ni…
as long as, provided that [2 ways]
siempre que / con tal de que
I find it difficult to…
se me hace difícil… [no connecting word after]
affordable
asequible
pickup point
el punto de recogida
fingertips
las puntas de los dedos
to get everything back-to-front (i.e. to make a mess of everything)
no dar una a derechas
Pedro no da una a derechas en el nuevo trabajo y teme que lo echen.
to get right, to guess correctly
acertar
I took Monday afternoon off [2 ways]
me he cogido la tarde del lunes libre / me he tomado la tarde del lunes libre
Don’t trust just any paella
No confíes en cualquier paella
to take for granted
dar por sentado
to give [someone] away (i.e. to betray something about someone)
delatarse
tu aspecto te delató
Mind-blowing paradox of fate
Alucinante paradoja del destino
whereas / but, however
en cambio
on the other hand
por otro lado
to despair [2 ways]
perder la esperanza / desesperarse
indolence
la desidia
to walk with a limp
cojear
It depends on whether he stays or goes
Depende de si se queda o se va él
indicative only used with depende de when the subordinate starts with si
It depends on where he goes
Depende de adónde vaya él
Depende de takes the subjunctive when the relative clause that follows conveys a question. So, qué, quién, dónde, etc
he took my hand and squeezed it
tomó mi mano y la apretó
apretar (ie)
folder (email, paper etc.)
la carpeta
