Songs

Question 1

Heridas

Answer 1

Wounds

Question 2

Una gota

Answer 2

A drop

Question 3

Vencer

Answer 3

Overcome

Question 4

La sequía

Answer 4

Drought

Question 5

Llorar

Answer 5

To cry

Question 6

Una pena

Answer 6

Pain (emotional)

Question 7

Soñar

Answer 7

To dream

Question 8

Comportamiento

Answer 8

Behavior

Question 9

Arrepentir

Answer 9

To regret

Question 10

Llorar

Answer 10

To cry

Question 11

Han

Answer 11

Have

Question 12

Rechazar

Answer 12

To refuse

Question 13

Aviendo pregonado vino, venden vinagre

Answer 13

This old Spanish proverb literally means, “having cried their wine, they sell us vinegar.” Feel free to use it in any situation where someone brags about their talents but, when they try to show you what they can do, makes a complete mess of it.

Question 14

Pocas palabras

Answer 14

Borrowed into English as far back as the 16th century, pocas palabras literally means “few words.” You can use it as essentially an old Spanish equivalent of “enough said!” or “say no more!”

Question 15

Quien sabe?

Answer 15

English speakers first began using this Spanish expression in the early 1800s, but it’s long fallen out of familiar use. It literally means “who knows?” and can be used in response to an unanswerable question or impossible situation.

Question 16

Un cabello hace sombra en el suelo.

Answer 16

Even the smallest of things can have an effect—or so implies this old Spanish proverb that essentially means “even a hair casts a shadow on the floor.”

Question 17

Revolver el ajo

Answer 17

“To disturb the garlic”—or “to disturb the broth” as another version, revolver el caldo, puts it—is to question the motives of someone who has revisited a long-forgotten matter or quarrel. Idiomatically, it’s like an English speaker re-opening a can of worms.