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La chingada. La chingada is a term commonly used in colloquial, even crass, Mexican Spanish that refers to various conditions or situations of, generally, negative connotations. The word is derived from the verb chingar, "to fuck". The concept of "la chingada" has been famously analysed by Octavio Paz in his book The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.
Caló (Spanish: [kaˈlo]; Catalan: [kəˈlo]; Galician: [kaˈlɔ]; Portuguese: [kɐˈlɔ]) is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani ethnic groups. It is a mixed language (referred to as a Para-Romani language in Romani linguistics) based on Romance grammar, with an adstratum of Romani lexical items, [2] through language shift ...
Moreover, Spanish has two semivowels as allophones, [j, w]; while Portuguese has four, two oral [i̯ ~ ɪ̯], [u̯ ~ ʊ̯] and two nasalized glides [j̃ ~ ɪ̯̃], [w̃ ~ ʊ̯̃] (non-syllabic near-close vowels, as those of most English speech, are allophones of the glides in the Brazilian dialects where near-closeds are used).
Family members and police asked for help Monday to find a newborn baby with a heart condition and her young mother, who disappeared Sunday in the East Los Angeles area. Fourteen-year-old Amoria ...
Quero que me digas a verdade. Quero que tu/você me digas/diga a verdade. Quero que tu fale/diga a verdade p'ra mim/eu. I want you to tell me the truth. (4) Adverbs Ele sempre nos vê na igreja. Ele sempre vê a gente na igreja./Ele sempre nos vê na igreja. Ele vê nós na igreja sempre./Ele sempre vê nós na igreja. He always sees us at church.
Spanish personal pronouns have distinct forms according to whether they stand for the subject (nominative) or object, and third-person pronouns make an additional distinction for direct object (accusative) or indirect object (dative), and for reflexivity as well. Several pronouns also have special forms used after prepositions.
panna, pana. Friend / Buddy[24]: 57 ("pana" is also a name for breadfruit in Puerto Rico) [25]: 45 From partner. pasárselas con la cuchara ancha. to get away with murder or to get away with it. perreo, perrear. A way of dancing ("grinding") or a danceable song. [3] pichea. “forget about that”, Disregard.