enojar vs. enfadar

Question

Hi. Is there a difference in usage for enojar and enfadar?

Their definitions seem almost the same, but enojar seems to be used when someone gets mad (themselves, regardless of cause), and enfadar seems to be used when one person makes another mad.

-c

Answer 1

Generally speaking, both are the same: to anger/annoy/offend. "Enojar" is not very used in Spain (although it is perfectly understood), and "enfadar" also means "to bore" in some parts of Latin America.

In any case, they are both transitive verbs, ie. you need someone to annoy, or whatever. If you are not making anyone annoyed, but it is you who gets annoyed, you need the intransitive pronominal counterpart of these verbs: enfadarse and enojarse.