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gustar - to like; gélido - icy; género - gender; gótico - gothic; habitualmente - habitually/commonly; hablábamos - we talked; había sido - had been; hace que - makes; hacerse - to be made; hachar - ax; Hagamoslo - Let's do it; hallar/encontrar - to find; han cazado - they hunted; han proporcionado - have provided; hartarse - to gorge/get ...
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
calé — a Romani person; from Caló ' Romani, speaker of Romani ', see caló below. caló — Caló language, also black, dark-colored; the word is possibly related to Sanskrit kanlanka ' blemish, macula ' and/or Ancient Greek kelainós ' black '. cañí — Caló, Romani person; possibly from cali, feminine of calé and/or caló see calé ...
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
Frijolero is the most commonly used Spanish word for beaner and is particularly offensive when used by a non-Mexican person towards a Mexican in the southwestern United States. [b] Gabacho , in Spain, is used as a derisive term for French people—and, by extension, any French-speaking individual .
Below are two estimates of the most common words in Modern Spanish.Each estimate comes from an analysis of a different text corpus.A text corpus is a large collection of samples of written and/or spoken language, that has been carefully prepared for linguistic analysis.
Gracey Van Der Mark is the latest in a long line of bombastic conservative O.C. politicians. But there's never been one like her, a Horatio Alger fable come to life.
This is a list of some Spanish words of Germanic origin. The list includes words from Visigothic , Frankish , Langobardic , Middle Dutch , Middle High German , Middle Low German , Old English , Old High German , Old Norse , Old Swedish , English , and finally, words which come from Germanic with the specific source unknown.