Tag Archives: idioms
Idioms with the verb “llevar” Posted by Adir on Jan 17, 2012
Llevar means “to take” or “to carry” and has several interesting idioms related to it. Let’s learn some of them today, shall we? llevar adelante – to carry something through El Gobierno llevó adelante su proyecto de ley. – The government carried through with its draft bill. Su novio la dejó pero llevó su embarazo…
Idioms test: the answers! Posted by Adir on Oct 27, 2011
Hey! Here are the answers to yesterday’s idioms test with the verbs “ser” and “dar” 1. Ramón es muy suyo. a) es muy egoísta b) es muy simpático c) es muy particular (ser muy suyo = to be an odd person) 2. Es el vivo retrato de su madre. a) es muy parecido a su madre…
Idioms test with verbs “ser” and “dar” Posted by Adir on Oct 25, 2011
Hi, there! Want to see if you’re good at idiomatic expressions? Choose the right answer for each of the sentences below. Remember to post your answers on the comments, ok? 1. Ramón es muy suyo. a) es muy egoísta b) es muy simpático c) es muy particular 2. Es el vivo retrato de su madre…
Idioms with the word “mundo” Posted by Adir on Sep 29, 2011
Yes, the word mundo (world) has several interesting idioms. Let’s check out some of them, shall we? medio mundo – a lot of people. Medio mundo estaba en la fiesta. A lot of people were at the party. caérsele / venírsele el mundo encima (a alguien) – (someome) to suffer from a severe letdown or disappointment…
The Facebook changes en español Posted by Adir on Sep 22, 2011
Hi, there! As you Facebookers all know, some major layout changes happened on Facebook yesterday and users were less than happy about it. So we proposed a little debate in our Spanish page and here are some of the comments people made: Es una mierda. (It’s a piece of s***!) Muy mal. (Very bad.) No…
“Ser y estar”, jugando con frases hechas Posted by Magda on Aug 11, 2011
I’m sure you have studied the differences between “ser” and “estar” tons of times, but as I see there are some friends asking about them these days both in our blog and the Transparent Spanish page, I think it’s a good idea to review them, now in a particular way: we are going to see…
Idioms with the verb “hacer” Posted by Adir on Jul 1, 2011
The verb hacer (to make, to do) has several idioms and I chose four of them so you can improve your colloquial Spanish a little bit, ok? Let’s start off with the idiom hacer la pelota. Well, hacer la pelota is a very common idiom at the workplace, when an employee butters up the boss…