Vocabulario de jerga y modismos en inglés: 448 palabras
Sound like a local — common colloquial words and idioms with their natural equivalents in each language (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). Esta página muestra 40 de ellas con su traducción al inglés, y después te deja practicar el conjunto completo en cualquier dirección con repetición espaciada.
De Español a Inglés: las primeras 40 palabras
| Español | Inglés | Notas |
|---|---|---|
| guay | cool | Impressively good, stylish or admirable in casual praise. Not about low temperature. |
| genial | awesome | Extremely good, said with enthusiasm about something you really like. |
| tío | guy, dude | Informal for a person; friendly, not insulting in casual speech. |
| pasar el rato | to hang out | To spend unhurried free time somewhere, usually with friends. |
| relajarse | to chill, relax | To let go of tension and rest calmly after effort or stress. |
| ¡Ni hablar! | No way! | An emphatic refusal meaning absolutely not, under no circumstances. |
| ¿A que mola? | Awesome, right? | A casual tag inviting the listener to agree that something is great. |
| es pan comido | It's a piece of cake | Idiom: very easy to do, not about actual cake. |
| está lloviendo a cántaros | It's raining cats and dogs | Idiom: heavy rain, not animals falling. |
| costar un ojo de la cara | to cost an arm and a leg | Idiom: extremely expensive, not literal body parts. |
| tomar el pelo | to pull someone's leg | Idiom: to tease or joke with someone, not physical. |
| estar sin blanca | to be broke | Having no money, not damaged or injured. |
| hablando del rey de Roma | Speak of the devil | Idiom: person arrives just as you mention them. |
| no es lo mío | not my cup of tea | Idiom: not something you like or enjoy. |
| dar en el clavo | to hit the nail on the head | Idiom: to say or do exactly the right thing. |
| ¡mucha suerte! | Good luck! | Said before a performance or challenge. |
| poco a poco | little by little | Gradually, in small amounts or stages over time. |
| más o menos | more or less | Approximately, roughly true but not exactly. |
| ¡Qué lío! | What a mess! | An exclamation about a scene of great disorder or muddle. |
| ¿En serio? | Are you kidding? | Said in disbelief, asking whether the speaker is joking. |
| tranqui | no worries | A casual reassurance that everything is fine and nobody should fret. |
| una pasada | awesome time | A hugely enjoyable stretch of fun. |
| estar harto | to be fed up | Very annoyed or tired of something; impatient. |
| en punto | on the dot | Exactly on time. |
| un montón | big deal, a lot | A very large amount or quantity of something. |
| meter la pata | to mess up | To blunder and spoil something through your own clumsiness. |
| paso a paso | step by step | Proceeding one stage at a time in careful order. |
| vale la pena | It's worth it | Said when the effort or cost is repaid by the result. |
| así así | so-so | Neither good nor bad, only middling. |
| echar un ojo | to keep an eye on | Idiom: to watch or monitor, not literal eye. |
| ¿Vale? | Get it?, Understood? | A short question checking that the listener has grasped what you said. |
| vale | Okay, alright | A word expressing agreement or consent to what was proposed. |
| no valer nada | to be worth nothing | To have no value or usefulness whatsoever. |
| ¡date prisa! | hurry up! | A command telling someone to move or act faster right now. |
| tener prisa | to be in a hurry | To have too little time and need to act quickly. |
| en serio | for real, seriously | Genuinely and truly, without any joking. |
| así es la vida | That's life | A resigned remark that such unwelcome things simply happen. |
| más vale tarde que nunca | Better late than never | A saying that doing something behind time beats not doing it at all. |
| poco a poco se llega lejos | little by little the bird builds its nest | Proverb: steady progress achieves goals over time. |
| estar en las nubes | to be on cloud nine | Idiom: extremely happy, not literally in sky. |
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