madre

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mother

noun

madre
feminine noun
1. mother (mujer, hembra)
  • es madre de tres niños -> she's a mother of three
  • Alicia va a ser madre -> Alicia's going to have a baby
  • madre adoptiva -> foster mother
  • madre de alquiler -> surrogate mother
  • madre biológica -> natural mother
  • la madre patria -> the motherland
  • madre política -> mother-in-law
  • madre soltera -> single mother
  • madre superiora (religion) -> mother superior
2. bed (cauce)
  • salirse de madre -> to burst its banks; (río) to go too far (figurative) (persona)
3. (expresiones)
  • ¡madre mía! -> Jesus!, Christ!
  • éramos ciento y la madre (informal) -> there were hundreds of us there
  • ¡la madre que te parió! (muy informal) -> you bastard!
  • dar a alguien en la madre -> to kick somebody's head in (Mexican Spanish)
  • me vale madre (informal) -> I couldn't give a damn o (Mexican Spanish) a toss (British)
  • ser la madre del cordero (informal figurative) -> to be at the very root of the problem

madre [mah’-dray]
noun
1. A mother. (f)
2. Mother superior (convento). (f)
3. Expectant mother (embarazada). (f)
4. Mother, a title given to religious women 5. (f)
5. Basis, foundation, origin. (f)
6. Matrix womb, 8. (f)
7. Sewer sink. (f)
8. Mother, a substance concreted in liquors, or the less or scum concreted. (f)
9. Mother, a familiar term of address to an old woman, 12. (f)
  • Madre de leche -> a wet-nurse
  • Mal de madre -> 1. Mother or hysterical passion. 2. The state of children spoiled by their mother. Madre política, mother-in-law. Su señora madre, your mother. Sin madre motherless. Ciento y la madre, hundreds of people. -a. 1. (Lit.) Mother. Buque madre, mother ship. Lengua madre, parent language. 2. La cuestión madre, the chief problem. 3. (LAm.) Tremendous, terrific.
Matron (hospital). Bed of a river (de río). The principal irrigating ditch whence small branches issue.

"madre" in the Answers forum

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Q: A mi madre la besa mi padre.
A: > Natasha said: > That´s my understanding. (But at this point I´m almost afraid to use any terminology about those *se* verbs.) :-) > > Mark Baker said:…
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