Researching the SD Dictionary: Share what you find learning game
Researching the SD Dictionary: Share what you find
When I'm looking up words in the SD dictionary, I find some very interesting phrases and usages. The idea of this learning game is to find something interesting to share with SD friends. Feel free to illustrate or expound on it with other links. Very simple, very helpful! Research away, SD amigos!
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Cuando estoy buscando las palabras en el diccionario SD, encuentro algunas frases muy interesante y usos. La idea de este juego de aprendizaje es encontrar algo interesante para compartir con sus amigos SD. Ilustras o explícala cuando quieras con otras enlaces. ¡Muy sencillo, muy útil! ¡Póngase a la investigación, amigos SD!
I'd appreciate help with my Spanish directions.
Apreciaría ayuda con mi direcciones españolas.
15 Answers
rezumar to ooze, exude
le rezuma el entusiasmo - he is bursting with enthusiasm
I'm not sure if you want something like this because I don't know if it is that uncommon. I found this irregular verb that I did not know and was surprised at its many uses. It also has more than one meaning. I haven't listed all the meanings. I thought I read somewhere that it cannot be reflexive, but I can't find where I read that. Conjugations.
caber - to fit
caber por -> to go through
¡no me cabe en la cabeza! ->I can't understand it!
caben cinco personas -> there is room for five people
no cabía ni un alfiler -> the place was packed out
no me cabe en el dedo -> it won't fit (on) my finger
no quiero postre, no me cabe nada más -> I've no room left for a dessert
nueve entre tres caben a tres -> three into nine goes three (times)
tres entre cinco no caben -> five into three won't go
No cabe el libro -> the book won’t go in
Caben 3 más -> there’s room for three more
En este depósito caben 20 litros -> this tank holds 20 litres
No caber de pies -> to have no room to stand
No caber de gozo, to be overjoyed
I found the following on encontrar:
no se encuentra muy bien -> she isn't very well
ánimo o salud - mood or health
revolotear - to flutter
El papel picado de brillantes colores, heraldo de todas las fiestas mexicanas, se ve revolotear con frecuencia por las calles y patios de San Miguel.
Brightly colored strings of papel picado, the harbingers of all Mexican fiestas, are often seen fluttering over the streets and courtyards of San Miguel.
aterirse - get stiff from/with cold
I couldn't find the conjugations in the SD verb conjugator so I went looking for more information and found this from about.com:
Additionally, a handful of uncommon verbs are used rarely, if at all, in forms other than the infinitive and past participle; these include aterirse ("to be freezing stiff"), despavorir ("to be terrified"), desolar ("to destroy") and empedernir ("to petrify").
quien espera desespera (Prov) -> a watched pot never boils
- cachondo/a
- cachondear(se)
Look them up in the dictionary.
supletoria/o
I saw this word on Ray's thread and Gringo's post. (Ventajas supletorias = fringe benefits)
What I learned in the SD dictionary:
Suppletory, supplemental, that which fills up deficiencies.
This is a cama supletoria - supplemental bed (spare bed, in this case, a roll-away).
Looking up 'kit' for the Picture of the Day: Horse Tattoo.
Kit = modelo para armar or kit
para montar = in kit form
fondos bloqueados -> frozen assets
atareado - busy
I was looking for a translation of a friend's letter.
Andar muy atareado -> to be very busy
Pregonar = to proclaim, announce, spread around.
Hawkers in the street pregonar.
This was new to me until a couple of days ago.
Icing on the cake = guinda
In English we have "so-so" when something is not good and not bad. I just found this for Spanish.
soso ? ? tasteless, uninteresting, dull
I had forgotten whether the word for wisdom was sabio or sabiduría. I went to the SD dictionary and was reminded that sabio describes a person as wise and sabiduría is the noun for wisdom.
