APENITAS

Question

Hola Todos! I couldn't find this word "APENITAS" in the Spanish dictionary. I am trying to understand the meaning. Could someone translate this word and this is how it's being use in a sentence.

"Apenitas cosas que hablan de ti"

Muchas gracias.
Henry

Answer 1

Henry D:

This dictionary:

Velazquez® Spanish and English Dictionary. Copyright © 2007 by Velazquez® Press. All rights reserved.

indicates the word is from the Andes

This dictionary:

Real Academia Española © Todos los derechos reservados

Indicates the word has roots in Mexico and El Salvador.

Answer 2

That's correct. I got that sentence from one of Titos'song. But there another version like...

EN MI YA NO HAY NADA
APENITAS COSAS QUE HABLAN DE TI

Now that you have give me some general meaning of the word Apenitas...another question I have is

Is this a common Spanish word and which country seem to use this word more often?

Gracias otro vez.

Answer 3

I'm wondering where Henry D got this from.
I "googled" the phrase "Apenas cosas que hablan de ti". I was referred to a song by Tito Rojas called 'Ayer me Dijeron'. These words appear in the song:

'En mi ya no hay nada
Sólo apenas cosas
Que me hablan de ti?

If this is where Henry D got it he did not bring us all the words or the correct words. Assuming Tito Roja's words are the basis for Henry D's question, Google translate the Spanish lines as:

In my (<---|this probably should be "me") there is nothing
Only (probably the word "the" missing here) little things
I speak to you (<---| perhaps this line should be "the little things I say to you")

I would be more comfortable with:

In me there is nothing
Only the little things
That I say to you

But, who really knows what poets and songwriters are trying to say. Their job is sometimes only to communicate a feeling, a nuance, a mystery.

Answer 4

'Hardly anything to talk to you about.?

You've tried to make sense our of it, but the sentence actually says:

Hardly things that talk about you.

Your English sentence would have been:

Apenitas algo de/sobre lo que habar contigo
Apenitas algo de/sobre lo que habarte

Answer 5

If you 'click? on ''apenitas', SpanishDict.com's dictionary suggests that it is Andean for 'apenas.?

'Clicking? on 'apenas', the first defining words we see are 'scarcely? and 'hardly'.

Perhaps it is over reaching, but is it possible that someone may write in a letter or an e-mail the following sentence':

'Hardly anything to talk to you about.'

Answer 6

"Apenitas" appears to be a diminutive of "apenas", but it doesn't seem to make much sense in that sentence.