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salt(
salt
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (culinary)
2. (chemistry)
3. (colloquial) (sailor)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
a. el lobo de mar (M)
(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).
After 50 years of fishing, the old salt finally retired.Después de 50 años en la pesca, el viejo lobo de mar por fin se jubiló.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g., I bought a book.).
b. echar sal en
We keep the salt shakers off the table so people don't salt their food too much.No tenemos saleros en la mesa para que la gente no eche tanta sal a la comida.
c. esparcir sal en (a road)
New York did not salt the roads and now they're all covered in ice.En Nueva York no esparcieron sal en las calles y ahora están cubiertas de hielo.
a. salar
They catch and salt hundreds of pounds of herring a day during fishing season.Pescan y salan cientos de libras de arenque al día durante la temporada de pesca.
An adjective is a word that describes a noun (e.g., the big dog).
6. (culinary)
a. salado
We ate some salt pork as a snack with our beer.Comimos un poco de cerdo salado como aperitivo con la cerveza.
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