Today’s Spanish word of the day is “club”.
It’s a masculine noun meaning, as you might have guessed, “club”. It refers to clubs in the sense of groups and associations as well as nightclubs, but not clubs in the sense of heavy sticks or the suit in cards.
If you want to refer to a golf club, you would say “palo de golf” (literally “golf stick”). If you want to refer to the suit of clubs in cards, the Spanish word is “tréboles” (singular “trebol”), which means “clovers”.
“Club” is an example of a loanword which has entered Spanish directly from English. The plural in Spanish is “clubes” rather than “clubs” like in English.
Example sentences
El club de lectura se reúne todos los jueves por la tarde.
The book club meets every Thursday afternoon.
En este club solo se admiten personas que puedan recitar el alfabeto al revés mientras hacen malabares.
This club only admits people who can recite the alphabet backwards while juggling.
Nunca pertenecería a un club que admitiera como miembro a alguien como yo. – Groucho Marx
I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.
El club nocturno cierra a las 3 de la mañana.
The nightclub closes at 3 AM.
¿Te gustaría unirte a nuestro club de senderismo?
Would you like to join our hiking club?
