Category: spanish language

  • Word of the week!

    Español Se lleva la palma: …takes the cake (phrase) fauce: jaw

  • Week 46: words of the week!

    Español Somier: bed base (sommier (French) – bed springs, the base structure that supports a beds mattress) Cesar: to terminate (in the context of employment)

  • Week 45: words of the week

    Español Arándanos: (fruit) disminuir: to diminish (verb. similar to reducir) invernadero: glasshouse cotidiana: everyday (in)certidumbre: certitude (un/certainty) Negó: denied (verb: negar -to deny) La derrota: the defeat Apenas: barely (“apenas una hora antes de….” Barely an hour after…) Aún: yet (aún no lo sé – i don’t know yet)

  • Week 44: this weeks new words

    Español Cobre: copper Macete: pot Vajilla: crockery Tetera: teapot Juego de café: coffee set Mallorquí cap de fiblo: a tornado (or tornado-like) weather phenomenon is called a cap de fibló in Mallorca when it hits land (It is called a mànegue or a fiblon when it occurs out in the sea.). You can see a…

  • Week 43: this weeks new words

    Castellano Babilla: a specific cut of meat from a cow. Part of the hind legs formed by a set of muscles and tendons that articulate the femur with the tibia and the patella. Taste wise it is dry, you can cook it whole, on the brasa, sliced in stew or in fillets. Tejone: badger Colmena:…

  • Week 42 2020: This week’s New Words

    Castellano Yodada: Iodized. (Sal yodada) Navegar a vela: sailing (with a sail..) Enojo – anger, annoyance Se hará – verb, Usufructo – The right by which a person can use the assets of another and enjoy their benefits, with the obligation to preserve and care for them as if they were their own. This seems…