Unit 12: More uses of SE, future and conditional tenses
Unit 12: Basic Vocabulary
Adjetivos:
| bien educado |
well mannered* |
| familiar |
family, pertaining to the family (false friend) |
| íntimo |
close (friend), intimate |
| malcriado |
ill-behaved |
| mal educado |
ill mannered* |
| siguiente |
following |
| tal |
such, such a |
| unido |
close-knit |
*Traditionally educado has referred to manners and educación to social skills. (Instruido has been the adjective used to mean “educated” and instrucción the noun to mean “education.”) As Spanish evolves, educado and educación are now routinely heard and written with the meaning of “educated” and “education.” Rely on context (or, occasionally, date of the text) to determine the meaning.
Adverbio:
| efectivamente |
in fact (false friend) |
Expresiones:
| a lo mejor |
at best, most likely |
| los años + multiple of 10 |
the _____s [decade] Ex. the 60s; the 1960s |
| cumplir años |
to have a birthday |
| es difícil que |
is unlikely that (versus: es difícil- it’s difficult/hard) |
| es fácil que |
it’s likely that (versus: es fácil- it’s easy) |
| estar a cargo (de) |
to be in charge (of) |
| yo, de usted (él, ella, etc.)* |
if l were you (he, she, etc.) |
*This expression usually takes the place of the imperfect subjunctive (see section 13.4) or, occasionally, the past perfect subjunctive (see section 15.1), in which case it means “If I had been you (he, she, etc.)”.
Preposiciones:
| dentro de |
within |
| frente a |
in the face of |
| mediante |
by means of, through |
Sustantivos:
| la amistad |
friendship (cognate: amity) |
| el amor |
love (cognate: amorous) |
| el apellido |
last name |
| el apodo |
nickname |
| el familiar |
family member, intimate friend (false friend) |
| el intento |
attempt (false friend) |
| la red |
net, network, Internet |
Verbos:
| acudir |
to come (to the rescue), to help, to aid |
| añorar |
to yearn for |
| apreciar |
to appreciate, to esteem, to hold in esteem |
| compartir |
to share |
| cortar(se) |
to cut (oneself) |
| cumplir |
to fulfill; to accomplish |
| despreciar |
to scorn, to look down on, to disdain, to deprecate |
| disminuir |
to diminish |
| echar de menos |
to miss (a person or place) |
| enterarse (de) |
to find out (about) |
| extrañar |
to miss (a person or place) |
| fracasar |
to fail |
| ignorar |
to be ignorant, not to know (false friend)* |
| lograr |
to obtain, to achieve, to manage (to do something) |
| luchar |
to struggle, to fight |
| recoger |
to pick up, to gather |
*These are the traditional meanings of ignorar. Recently it has been used by some with the meaning that corresponds to the English, “not to pay attention to,” which will likely become standard in parts of the Spanish-speaking world.
