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choices

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opciones, selecciones

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what’s your choice?

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qué escoges?

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there’s no choice

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No hay de otra

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Good choice

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buena selección

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What are my choices?

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Cuáles son mis opciones?

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picky / choosy

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especial

Ellas is muy especial para la comida

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demanding

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exigente

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annoyingly fussy

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fastidioso

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annoyingly picky (Mex.)

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sangrón / No seas tan sangrón

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enough

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suficiente

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plenty (use caution)

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Tengo suficiente dinero ( I have enough to buy gas)

Tengo bastante dinero (boastful, “I’ve got plenty of money”

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alcanzar

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can mean “to reach” but also “to be enough” “to afford”

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Te alcanza para una Coca?

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Do you have enough for a Coke?

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No me alcanza

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“I don’t have enough.” (money)

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Can you afford new shoes?

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Te alcanza para nuevos zapatos?

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Enough already!

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Basta!

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Es bastante guapo

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He’s plenty handsome

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Es bastante listo con las computadores

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He’s really clever with computers.

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El lo suficientemente listo

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He’s clever enough.

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Temor

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temor = specific fear (temer); more like a feeling

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temo que algo haya pasado

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I’m afraid that something has happened

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Mi temor es que escapen los animales

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My fear is that the animals might escape.

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Temo haber llegado en un mal momento

Temo que hayamos llegado en un mal momento

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I feat we may have arrived at a bad moment.

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Miedo

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run of the mill sort of fear (fear of the dark, fear of scorpions…)

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Me dan miedo / Tengo miedo de ellos
it gives me fear / I fear others
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Susto
a scare; more sudden than a fear; a shock
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Que susto me diste!
What a scare you gave me!
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asustar
to scare (same as dar susto)
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tengo miedo los osos | los osos me asustan
bears scare me | suggests bears sneak up and scare you
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espantar
to scare away
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espantapájaros
scarecrow (literally "scare away birds")
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espanto
spook, ghost
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la casa de los espantos
haunted house
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miedoso
cowardly
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pusilánime
cowardly
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espantoso
frightfully bad, dreadful
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to convey scary use...
miedo
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Es una película de miedo
it's a scary movie
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una película de horror
horror movie
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tétrico
eerie, spooky
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aterrador
terrifying
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pavor
terrifying, intense, almost phobic fear mingled with equal parts died and loathing
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me dan pavor las tarantulas
I'm terrified of tarantulas
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pánico
similar to pavor but more slangy
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me da horror
it disgusts me (me da asco)
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me da cosa
slangy, "gives me the creeps"
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adivinar
to guess
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Adivina quien es
Guess who it is
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Adivina que
Guess what
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I guess....
Supongo (suponer)
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Supongo que ya me voy
I guess I'll be going now
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Vas a ir esta noche? | Me imagino que si
Are you going tonight? | I guess so
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atinar / acertar
to guess right
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A ver si le aciertas la ganador
Let's see if you can guess the winner
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Atinaste!
You got it (guessed right)
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Let me guess
A ver si le atino
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la mitad de pizza media pizza una pizza medio cocida
half of the pizza (noun = mitad) half a pizza a half-cooked pizza
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half a bottle of wine
media botella de vino
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Dame la mitad
Give me half
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Irse a mitades
split the cost (slangy)
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Si compramos una pizza, nos vamos a mitades
If we buy a pizza, we each pay half
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medio
"kind of" (as a modifier)
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medio feo medio feliz medio borracho
kind of ugly kind of happy kind of drunk
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a mediado de
around the middle of (always used with time) | a mediados de marzo
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en medio de
in the middle of | en medio de la calle
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en medio de gran lío
in the middle of a big mess
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A medias
adverb describing how something is done, half-way, or half-ass
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Esos albañiles lo hicieron a medias!
those construction workers did a half-assed job.
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Never use "cómo" this way
"How do you like..." "How was the..."
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How was the movie?
Que tal estuvo la película?
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How's the soup?
Que tal la sopa?
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7 words for 'maybe'
1. No lo sé 2. puede ser 3. a lo mejor 4. tal vez 5. quien sabes? 6. quizàs (formal) 7. chance (slangy)
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avoid these two for 'maybe'
probablamente | posiblemente
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universal excuse when something bad happens at your hands
fue sin querer
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by accident / inadvertently
sin querer / sin pensar
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on purpose
a propósito / con querer
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lo hice con querer
I did it on purpose
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you must... / you have to... you'd better.. you ought to... you should...
tengo que mas te vale mejor.. debes / deberías
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mejor vas / mas te vale ir
you'd better go / you better go (or else...)
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debes ir mañana deberías ir mañana debieras ir mañana
You should go tomorrow
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adding "de" to "deber"
evidence that something is "supposed to be" or "should be" / no debe de haber llegado (he must not have arrived yet)
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No debió haber llegado
He shouldn't have arrived. (That is did arrive but against speaker's better judgement.)
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You should have gone
Debías haber ido / Debiste haber ido
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1. Debías haber ido a la fiesta 2. Debiste haber ido a la fiesta 3. Debiste ir a la fiesta
1. You should have gone to the party (you missed a good time) 2. (similar to above but with hint of "I told you so") 3. It was your duty/obligation to go
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you should have gone
hubieras ido
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they should have called
hubieran llamado
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obligar
to make / to force
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la policía nos obligó a salir
they police forced us to leave
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el diablo me obligó a hacerlo
the devil made me do it
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usually
generalmente, normalmente, por lo general, suele...
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most of the time
casi siempre
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most of the people
casi todos
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to waste time
perder el tiempo
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a waste of time
una pérdida de tiempo
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to ruin
echar a perder
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echaste a perder el juego
you ruined the game
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to spoil / to go to waste
echarse a perder
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estás echando a perder al nińo.
you're spoiling the boy

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