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English Spanish Vocabulary – War La guerra Posted by on Aug 11, 2015 in Learning, Spanish Vocabulary

Today we are going to practice some useful Spanish vocabulary related to war.
Hoy vamos a practicar vocabulario español útil relacionado con la guerra.

 

Use the player below to listen to and repeat the pronunciation of the words in Spanish:

War – La guerra

Air force — las fuerzas aéreas
Allied forces — las fuerzas aliadas
Attack — el ataque/atacar
Armed forces — las fuerzas armadas
Army — el ejército
Base — base
Battle — la batalla
To be taken captive — encontrarse cautivo
Bomb — la bomba/bombardear
Casualty — la baja, el/la herido
Cease-fire — el alto el fuego
Civilian— civil
Combat — el combate
Combatant — el/la combatiente
(Non)Combatant — el/la (no) combatiente
Conflict — el conflicto
Conscientious objector — el objector de conciencia
Death — la muerte
Destroy — destruir
Explosion — la explosión
Hostilities — las hostilidades
Human rights — los derechos humanos
To injure — herir
Injured — herido
Invasion — la invasión
To kill — matar
Military — militar
Missile — el misil
Navy — la marina
Patrol — la patrulla/patrullar/estar de patrulla
Peace — la paz
To shoot down, to bring down — derribar
Soldier/fighter — el/la soldado/militar
To strike/hit — sacudir
Target — el blanco
Tank — el tanque, el carro de combate
Terrorist — el/la terrorista
Troops — las tropas
War — la guerra
War criminal — el criminal de guerra
Weapon — el arma
Weapons of mass destruction — las armas de destrucción masiva

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Laura & Adam have been blogging and creating online Spanish courses for Transparent Language since 2010. Laura is from Bilbao in northern Spain and Adam is from Devon in the south of England. They lived together in Spain for over 10 years, where their 2 daughters were born, and now they live in Scotland. Both Laura & Adam qualified as foreign language teachers in 2004 and since have been teaching Spanish in Spain, the UK, and online.