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"Egg" is a noun which is often translated as "el huevo", and "chicken" is a noun which is often translated as "el pollo". Learn more about the difference between "egg" and "chicken" below.
egg(
ehg
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (culinary)
b. el blanquillo (M) (colloquial) (Central America) (Mexico)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
Regionalism used in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
Regionalism used in Mexico
She likes to eat scrambled eggs.Le gusta comer blanquillos revueltos.
a. el óvulo (M) (human)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
An egg donor can help an infertile woman have a baby.Una donante de óvulos puede ayudar a una mujer estéril tener un bebé.
c. el blanquillo (M) (colloquial) (hen) (Mexico)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
Regionalism used in Mexico
A hen lays an average of six eggs per week.Una gallina pone un promedio de seis blanquillos por semana.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g., I bought a book.).
chicken(
chih
-
kihn
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (animal)
b. la gallina (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The chickens were incubating their eggs.Las gallinas estaban empollando sus huevos.
2. (culinary)
b. la gallina (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
I'm making a nutritious chicken soup for my grandma.Le estoy haciendo un caldo de gallina nutritivo para la abuela.
3. (colloquial) (coward)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
a. el gallina (M), la gallina (F) (colloquial)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
If you don't jump the fence, you're a chicken.Si no saltas la valla, eres un gallina.
An adjective is a word that describes a noun (e.g., the big dog).
4. (colloquial) (cowardly)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
a. gallina (colloquial)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
Why don't you do it? Are you chicken?¿Por qué no lo haces? ¿Eres gallina?
