Today’s Spanish word of the day is “tiempo”. It’s a masculine noun that can mean “time” or “weather”. It might seem strange that “tiempo” can mean both “time” and “weather”, but English originally linked the concepts as well in the word “tide” (as in “Yuletide”), which used to refer to both time and weather. For […]
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “vez”. It’s a feminine noun meaning “time” or “occasion”. The plural is “veces”. When used to mean “time”, it refers to a single occasion rather than the concept of time more generally, for which the word “tiempo” is used instead. The word “vez” is used in several common
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “andar”. It’s a versatile verb that usually means “to walk” or “to go”. It can also be used figuratively to refer to whether or not something works, or how something is going, for example: The phrase “andar en bicicleta” is also used to refer to cycling, for example:
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “millón”. It’s a masculine noun meaning “million”. The plural form is “millones” (“millions”). Both Spanish “millón” and English “million” come from the Italian word milione, which is an augmentative form of Italian mille (“thousand”). Example sentences Tengo un millón de cosas que hacer hoy. I have a million
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “caballero”. It’s a masculine noun meaning “gentleman” or “knight”. It can be used as a polite way of addressing a man, and is used in the phrase “damas y caballeros” (“ladies and gentlemen”). It’s also used to refer to medieval knights, The word “caballero” comes from Latin caballarius
Today’s Spanish word of the day is a two for one: “muchacho” (masculine) and “muchacha” (feminine). The masculine form means “boy” or “young man”, while the feminine form means “girl” or “young woman”. In the past, the words “muchacho” and “muchacha” could be used to refer to servants and maids, though this usage is quite
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Today’s Spanish word of the day is “tarde”. It’s both a feminine noun meaning “afternoon”, and an adverb meaning “late”. Some common phrases including the word “tarde” include: The Spanish word “tarde” comes from the Latin adverb tarde, meaning “slowly” or “late”, which came from the root tardus, meaning “slow”. Some English words from the
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “real”. It’s an adjective that often means “real”, “genuine” or “authentic”, like the English word “real”. It can also mean “royal”, and is used in things like the names of the soccer team Real Madrid (“Royal Madrid”) and organizations such as the Real Academia Española (“Royal Spanish Academy”).The
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “menos”. It usually translates as “less” or “except”, and can be used as an adverb, adjective or conjunction. It also means “minus” when talking about subtraction. The word comes from Latin minus, which also meant “less” and is the root of several English words including “minus” and “minor”.
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “paso”. It’s a masculine noun that usually means “step”, but can also mean “pace”, “passage” or “way” depending on the context. The word “paso” comes from Latin passus, meaning “step” or “pace”. This is also the root of the English words “pass”, “passage” and “pace”. Some useful phrases
