Today’s Spanish word of the day is “café”. It’s a masculine noun meaning “coffee” or “café/coffee shop”. The word “café” can also be used to mean “brown”, instead of the using the word “marrón”. This is more common in Latin America than Spain. When using the word “café” to mean “brown”, it’s usually used in […]
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “policía”. It’s a feminine noun meaning “police”. It can also mean “police officer”, in which case it can be masculine or feminine depending on the gender of the police officer you’re referring to. Like in English, there are a lot of slang words for the police, some of
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “aunque”. It’s a conjunction that can translate as “even though”, “although” or “even if”. If you think about it, the idea of “even though” or “although” is a bit different to that of “even if”. They all introduce a new clause, but “even though” and “although” introduce something
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “ropa”. It’s a feminine noun meaning “clothes” or “clothing”. It’s related to the English word “robe”, and originally came from an ancient Germanic word meaning “booty” or “plunder”, from which we also get the word “rob” in English. It’s assumed the word acquired the meaning “clothes” (or “robe”
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “propio”. It’s an adjective that can mean “own”, “typical” or “appropriate”. The word “propio” comes from Latin proprius, which in turn came from the phrase pro privo, which meant “for the individual”. Example sentences Cada uno tiene su propio estilo. Everyone has their own style. Lo compré con
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “forma”. It’s a feminine noun meaning “form”, “shape,” or “way” (as in “manner”). A related word is the verb “formar”, which can mean “to form”, “to make up” or “to train/educate”. Like the English word “form”, Spanish “forma” comes from Latin forma, which could have several meanings include
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “ejército”. It’s a masculine noun meaning “army”. Like in English, it can also be used more metaphorically to refer to a group working together, for example: The word “ejército” comes from the Latin exercitus, which also meant “army”, or a military group more generally. Latin exercitus is related
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “preocupar”. It’s a verb meaning “to worry” or “to be concerned” or “to bother”. It can also be used in the reflexive form, “preocuparse”, meaning “to worry about”, for example: A common phrase using the reflexive form is “no te preocupes”, meaning “don’t worry about it”. The meaning
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “perfecto”. It’s an adjective meaning “perfect” or “flawless”. It can also mean “absolute” or “complete”, for example: When talking about grammar, the word “perfecto” is used to refer to forms of the past tense in which an action is described as being completed rather than ongoing. The word
Today’s Spanish word of the day is “deber”. It’s a versatile verb that can refer to obligations, translating as “should”, “must” or “to have to”. It can also mean “to owe”. In the reflexive form (“deberse”), it refers to the cause of something and means “to be due to”, for example: The word “deber” can
