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salt

la sal

salar

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salt

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A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).

noun

1. (culinary)

a. la sal

(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).

(F)

I love sea salt on my potatoes.Me encanta echar sal marina en las papas.

2. (chemistry)

a. la sal

(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).

(F)

Chalk is made of a calcium carbonate salt.La tiza está compuesta de una sal de carbonato cálcico.

A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).

(colloquial)

(sailor)

a. el lobo de mar

(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).

(M)

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.).

transitive verb

4. (to put salt on)

a. salar

Don't salt the food too much.No sales la comida demasiado.

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.

5. (to preserve with salt)

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).

adjective

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.

salt

A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).

Noun

1. (substance)

a. la sal

(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).

(F)

(bath) saltssales de baño

salt minemina de sal, salina f

salt shakersalero m

2. (colloquial)

a. (sailor)

an old saltun lobo de mar

3. (idioms)

to take a story with a pinch or grain of saltno creerse del todo una historia

no journalist worth his salt …ningún periodista que se precie…

to rub salt in somebody's woundsremoverle la herida a alguien

the salt of the earthla sal de la tierra

An adjective is a word that describes a noun (e.g. the big dog).

adjective

4. (general)

salt beefsalazón de ternera

salt codbacalao (salado)

salt wateragua salada

A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).

transitive verb

5. (food)

a. salar

6. (roads)

a. esparcir sal en

salt [sɔːlt]

noun

1 (Cookery) sal (f)

the salt of the earth la sal de la tierra

to take sth with a pinch or grain of salt no tomarse algo al pie de la letra

to rub salt into the wound poner sal en la llaga

he's worth his salt es una persona que vale

2 (Med) salts sales (f)

like a dose of salts en un santiamén (informal); en menos que canta un gallo (informal)

The new secretary went through the unanswered letters like a dose of salts

transitive verb

(flavour) salar; (preserve) conservar en sal; [+road] poner sal en; tratar con sal;

adjective

[+meat, water, taste] salado

it has a salt taste

it's very salt está muy salado

modifier

salt beef (n) carne (f) de vaca salada

salt fish (n) pescado (m) salado; pescado (m) en salazón

salt flats (n) salinas (f)

salt lake (n) lago (m) de agua salada

salt marsh (n) saladar (m); salina (f)

salt mine (n) mina (f) de sal

salt pan (n) salina (f)

salt shaker (n) salero (m)

salt spoon (n) cucharita (f) de sal

salt water (n) agua (f) salada

saltwater

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Present:	salting
Past:	salted

Indicative of "salt"

	Present	Past	Future
I	salt	salted	will salt
you	salt	salted	will salt
he/she	salts	salted	will salt
we	salt	salted	will salt
you	salt	salted	will salt
they	salt	salted	will salt