Words borrowed from English
Some words that we use in Spanish are words that derive from English and are accepted by RAE. Others are slangs or colloquial words we use with family members or friends. What are some words in Spanish that you use that derive from English? Or maybe from another language? I will share a funny one with you all: When I was little, everyone I knew (family, neighbors, friends) would call "fresas" es-tro-be-ris. I NEVER called them fresas until I was an adult.
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the following words (among hundreds) in Spanish come from English: los jeans, los pantalones, la música, la universidad.
While the term jeans is certainly an anglicism that is used in Spanish (particulary in America), the same can not be said of the remaining terms:
The word pantalón (plural: pantalones) is not derived from English but from French. Pantaloons refers to a sort of French tights that were fashionable in the late 17th century. This French loan word found its way into both Spanish and English.
The English word music is derived (via the French loan word musique) from the Latin musica. Likewise, the Spanish word música is derived, albeit more directly, from the same original Latin word (this Latin word is itself derived of an older Greek term, mousike).
Similarly, both the word universidad and university are derived directly from the Latin word universitas.
Checar (from English to check, comprobar)
El wind-surf.
El golf.
Como no son mis deportes preferidos no uso estas palabras muchas veces , pero creo que no haya otra manera de decirlas.
Armadillo:
This southwestern animal is named after the Spanish word armadillo, which means "little man with armor."
(Everyone in Louisiana knows this word, jeje)
All languages borrow/derive words from other languages. English has probably the largest number of words (vocabulary) for this reason. I believe, the following words (among hundreds) in Spanish come from English: los jeans, los pantalones, la música, la universidad.
Aunque no se registran en el DRAE los anglicismos lonche y lonchear se usan en varias zonas de las Américas.
Pero en castellano se dice los vaqueros! - annierats
Pues, depende del país. Claro que en algunos lugares se dice vaqueros o pantalones vaqueros pero en otros se usan las palabras tejanos, pantalón pitusa y pantalones de mezclilla
IN Danish "halv syv" - "half seven" means "half past 6" and not "half past 7".
I arrived almost hour late for the first date with my Danish wife.
Could it be because you were born in an English speaking country to Spanish speaking parents?
:D
For example: almost everybody in Mexico know what a troca/troka(?) is. (truck) especially in the Northern part of Mexico, outside Mexico and maybe Puerto Rico too has adopted this word to call what the rest of the Hispanics call a "camioneta"
