La Palabra Del Dia: "mensual"
mensual ( mehn-swahl' )
adjective ( monthly )
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1. Es buena idea establecer una transferencia mensual a tu cuenta de ahorro.
It's a good idea to set up a monthly transfer to your savings account.
2. Solo me quedan tres pagos mensuales más antes de terminar de pagar mi carro.
I only have three monthly payments left before having paid off my car. .
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Recibimos un número de revistas mensuales, pero sólo una semanal, y ésa es mi favorita.
We receive a number of monthly magazines, but only one weekly, and that one is my favorite.
In English, the terms "bimonthly" and "biweekly" are, unfortunately, ambiguous since they can mean twice a month/week or every other month/week. This ambiguity does not exist in Spanish. The following table illustrates this phenomena and shows the appropriate Spanish words to use in these situations. In English, in most cases, the same word can be used as a noun, an adjective or an adverb, while Spanish has different words for each.
Another interesting thing I discovered while researching this topic is that the Spanish word for fortnight - quincena - literally means every 15 days, while the standard definition of fortnight in English is 14 days or two weeks. If a Spanish speaker really wants to say every two weeks, which would be fortnightly or biweekly (one meaning) in English I think he would have to say "cada dos semanas."
By the way, if I were the King of English, I would enforce a new rule that bimonthly can ONLY mean every other month. After all, there is a perfectly good word for "twice a month" -- semimonthly.
| English | Meaning | Spanish
| bimonthly (adjective) | every other month, every two months | bimestral, cada dos meses
| bimonthly (adverb) | every other month, 6 times per year | bemestralmente, cada dos meses
| bimonthly, semimonthly (adjective) | twice a month, two times per month | bimensual, dos veces por mes
| bimonthly, semimonthly (adverb) | twice a month, two times per month | bimensualmente, dos veces por mes
| fortnight (noun) | 14 days, two weeks | quincena (quince dias), dos semanas
| fortnightly (adjective) | every other week, every two weeks | quincenal, cada dos semanas
| fortnightly (adverb) | every other week, every two weeks | quincenalmente, cada dos semanas
| biweekly (adjective) | every other week, every two weeks | quincenal, cada dos semanas
| biweekly (adverb) | every other week, every two weeks | quincenalmente, cada dos semanas
| biweekly, semiweekly (adjective) | twice a week, two times per week | bisemenal, dos veces por semena
| biweekly, semiweekly (adverb) | twice a week, two times per week | bisemenalmente, dos veces por semana
| weekly newspaper or magazine | published weekly | semanario, periódico o revista semanal
| biannual, semiannual (adjective) | twice a year, every six months | semestral, bianual, dos veces por año
| biannually (adverb) | twice a year, every six months | semestralmente, bianualmente, dos veces por año
| biennial (adjective) | every other year, every two years | bienal, cada dos años
| biennially (adverb) | every other year, every two years | bienalmente, cada dos años
| quarterly (adjective) | every three months, four times per year | trimensual, cada tres meses
| quarterly (adverb) | every three months, four times per year | trimensualmente, cada tres meses
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Si tienes que vivir de un ingreso mensual , ten cuidado y economizalo bien, sino tienes problemas en el final de mes.
If you have to live on a monthly income, be careful and economize it well, otherwise you will have problems at the end of the month.
Pertenezco a un club de cámara que tiene reuniones mensuales. Porque estoy en el extrañjero por un mes, no pude ir a la reunión en junio, pero voy a asistir **a la ** de julio. En España he sacado muchas fotos y espero que vaya a usar algunas en las competencias del club. Este es nuestro logo.
I belong to a camera club which has monthly meetiings. Because I am abroad for a month, I couldn't go to the June meeting, but I will attend in July. In Spain I have taken a lot of photos and I hope that I am going to use some in the club competitions. This is our logo.
¿Te gusta recibir tu sueldo mensual o cada dos semanas?
Do like to receive your pay monthly or every 2 weeks?
La próxima semana es cuando todas mis facturas mensuales deben ser pagadas.
Next week is when all of my monthly bills must be paid.
Como soy mujer sé desmasiado de los problemas mensuales que tenemos nosotras con la regla, los cambios hormonales, los dolores de cabeza, la tensión pre-menstrual y la preoccupación cuando no llega la regla el día esperado. ¡ Que barbaridad!
As I'm a woman I know only too much about the monthly problems that we women suffer with menstruation, hormonal changes, headaches and pre-menstrual tension and the worries when the curse doesn't arrive on the expected day. Effing nuisance!
Pues, tengo mi carro nuevo. Lo único que me queda es hacer los pagos mensuales.
Well, I have my new car. The only thing remaining is to make the monthly payments.
Her monthly letter did not arrive so her grandmother became worried about her.
Su carta mensual no llegó, así que su abuelita se preocupaba preocupó por ella.
Mis viñetas a veces aparecen en un periódico mensual, "Funny Times," que se publica en Cleveland.
My cartoons sometimes appear in a monthly paper, "Funny Times", which is published in Cleveland.
¿Por qué hay más pagos mensual por año que meses en el año?
Why are there more monthly payments per year than months in the year?
