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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
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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
| Q: | Tu madre me dijo |
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| Q: | can anyone tell me what this means please....ei precioso sta madre no kiere abrir… |
| A: | this is basically saying handsome this peace of crap doesn't want to open the chat box... you send it to me i love you alot. |
| Q: | Mi lengua madre es el español. |
| A: | Reynaldo, Lo bueno del inglés es que las conjugaciones de los verbos son muy sencillas, comparadas a las del español. Al mismo tiempo, hay un monton… |
| Q: | adios madre adurada |
| A: | Is this a misprint of *adios madre adorada*' |
| 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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