Spanish Words that are Impossible to Translate in English
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I think the funniest word we have in Spanish that English does not have is "pescado", which means fish but not any fish, it refers just to fished fish. A fish, the animal, is "pez" in Spanish, but once a "pez" has been fished we refer to it as "pescado" which literally translates to "fished". So the fish in my aquarium is a "pez" but the fish I'm having for dinner is a "pescado".
It's something that seems very obvious and don't really think about when you grow up speaking Spanish. But when you learn other languages and think about it, it's just funny to me that we make that distinction 😂😂
I find it logical.
In my language, pescado translates to αλίευμα(alieuma), and pez to ψάρι(psari). Because exactly like in Spanish, what ever a pescador(αλιεύς/alieus) has caught, it's now pescado.
There is something similar in English, in Spanish, you have to say "carne de oveja/cordero" while the word "mutton" specifically means "sheep meat" but it comes from old French "mouton" which only means "sheep".
We do similar things in English.
Beef is cow that we eat. But when you see a cow in a field, you don’t call it beef. And when you see beef in a plate, you don’t call it cow. Also with pork and pig.
Spanish also has pollo (chicken we eat) and gallo/gallina (chicken that’s still alive)
@@williamcrain4204 in spanish we do have beef (res) and cow (vaca), but we don’t have pork and pig
@@williamcrain4204 Pollo are Alive too...
"I'm Andrea from Mexico 🇲🇽 and i'm Andrea from Spain 🇪🇸" loved the choice , both are Andrea and both speak spanish 😂😁
They are ✨ T O C A Y A S ✨
I hope Andrea from Spain stays 'Andrea' .. In the other video she was Leah ..
@@JosephOccenoBFH she is a chameleon. 😂 or maybe both are her names. You know, some people have up to 4 or 5 names.
And you know what? In Italian, the name "Andrea" is for males! (we use Andrés in Spanish)
@@BlackHoleSpain yep like Andrea Pirlo…
my favorite word that exists in Spanish but not English is "estrenar". I remember my coworker asked how to say it and I was like, "uh? to use or to wear for the first time, I guess?" hahah
My favourite one is “vidajeno.” That word is so useful.
yes! in portuguese we have that too, it’s “estrear”
It’s like to debut something new. Yes!
To premier hahahahah
I was going to post "estrenar" too.
*Mono* has so many meanings. Mono as in the prefix One, Mono as in Monkey, Mono as in cute (in spain), Mono as in Blonde (in Colombia), Mono as in overalls, and there are probably more meanings in different countries
But how do you know if they're insulting you (you're a monkey) or complimenting you ( you're cute)
Mono also works as "urge, crave" for addictions and such (Talking for Spain, dont know about other Hispanic countries) so for instance "Tengo mono de fumar" would be "I have an urge to smoke"
@@Niall69Irish it depends on the country. In Spain is cute. In Colombia it's blonde. I've heard in Mexico mono as monkey, etc
@@aguaoscura12 I think its more like having cold turkey...like serious withdrawal from drugs. At least thats how they explained it to me when we were helping drogodependientes in Madrid. -apart from monkey i meant.
@@Niall69Irish context 🤣
I love the word "ajeno", it's an adjective that means "that belongs to someone else". I don't know of any word that has the same meaning in english, although "else's" could be close
Foreign?
@@tigredecorazon-3274 No, eso es extranjero... Else's se parece más
@@MegaHinata14 Me parece que "foreign" en algunos contextos sí se traduce a "ajeno"
Spanish "ajeno" and its Portuguese cognate "alheio" both come from Latin "alienus". Thus, its English cognate would be "alien".
"Ajeno" as a noun=(literally) "the alien one".
"Ajeno" as an adjective= (literally) "alien"
@@missqueen20_ ninguna de las dos cumplen con el significado de ajeno en Español, ni cerca.
Ajeno: Que pertenece o corresponde a otro.
Else: de otra forma, en otro lugar, de otro lugar…
Foreign: de afuera, extranjero…
Depending on the country , the spanish can have a lot of words and accents , very diverse language , not just bewteen Mexico and Spain , but all of them like Uruguay or Peru , even in US 🇺🇲 has an accent
Yea very different lol, even some words or phrases. I’m Puerto Rican n sometimes I have no idea what they r talkin about lol
Exactly. There's something called US Spanish lol
@@adri_makeup same
Yeah, they have people from everywhere. In another video they also had an argentinian xd
@@adri_makeup no digas bicho en Puerto Rico! Jaja
We actually do have an English equivalent to "empalagar"! It's "cloying". Means the same thing, both for actual sweet foods and for metaphorically overly sweet people.
Also used for overwhelmingly sweet fragrances or smells.
thats so interesting!!
I was just thinking this! "Cloying" is definitely the equivalent translation.
Oh, thanks! Growing bilingual and not very fond of sweet, I've been dying to find that word for ages!!
I think this one is nitpicking because in my 27 years of life, this is the first time I’ve ever even seen the word “cloying” let alone ever heard it spoken.
The worst is that they don’t have a translation for “te quiero” which is then weird because “te amo” meaning I love you it means a very very strong feeling in Spanish-speaking countries I think because it’s beyond “te quiero”. Some other language don’t have this either, but I don’t know much about it. I guess the closest translation would be: I care about you.
The closest equivalent in English would be "I like you", but I agree it's not perfect.
Also there isn't a translation for me agradas, its the same translation as me gustas, i like you, i have got confused for ppl telling me i like you lol
Hi, I'm from Argentina. For me, it can be similar to "I want you", because "want" is "querer" and in some way we are admitting that we want to have that person but not enough to love like "I love you"
Exactly "te quiero" is "I want you", but culturally it feels different because it is alot more like I want you for me, like I really like you, it's a possessive thing but not viewed by the other side as negative.
@@satolatifi24 the closest may be "I fancy you"
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One of the issues that always call my attention is when people are like "oh, how word have those meanings" ... well, IT DOES happen in your language too.
In English you have "to produce" as in "to manufacture", and "produce" as the final product of a process (like cheese, and cream, from raw milk, for example).
You can have "tap" as the "valve" at the end of pipe, or to touch someone as in "tap on the shoulder", to dance as in "tap dancing", to listen to a phone conversation "to tap his/her phone" (to put a wire).
So, how people could be confused by that? You tend to understand the meaning of the word by the context. And it happens in most languages.
And let's not get into the dozen ways that "shit" can be used. It's the shit. It's shit. It's a piece of shit. Just a few ways to convey completely incompatible meanings (akin to the use of de puta madre / puta madre in spanish).
I used to always talk about when I was little how you can say “wee” as in “pee” and then “wee” as in “little” and since I didn’t know how to spell, “we” as in “us”. Then also “pee” as in “urine” and “pea” as in “legumes”. For some reason I talked about that a lot as a 5 year old. I guess I thought it was weird.
In Spain we say “friolero”, not “friolento”.
Other word that exists in Spanish, but not in English is “estadounidense” which refers to a person who comes from the United States, in spanish “Estados Unidos”.
True, always feel kinda dirty to say "American" to refer to someone from the US when I'm speaking in English. It just makes me feel like I am referring to people from the US like they are superior to everyone else from America (the continent), which are Americans as well. It's just odd that there isn't a word to refer to someone from the US specifically, inside of all the countries in America.
Un saludo desde Madrid, España
@@rubydtl8449 it's cause the America's is a region made up of 2 continents. So if you live in say Chile and you want to refer to the continent, like Europeans do, you would say "I'm South American" not "I'm American." Americans really have no other option when referring to ourselves as our countries name is America. Would you call a Mexican, estadounidense? Their countries full name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos or united Mexican States.
Yes I really wish we had a word for someone from the US. I think that’s why people have come to refer to the US as “America” as well which is very uncomfortable. I broke out of that habit when I went to study in Spain in college and after someone asked where I was from I said “America” and they said “oh cool! Which country?” 😂
Also side note - estadounidense is one of the hardest words for me to pronounce 😂
@@DanielGarcia-vu2md No, your continent's name is America, your country in this case is Estados Unidos. Someone from the USA calls someone from México "mexican", they don't call them "americans", as they call someone from Chile "chilean", not "southamerican". That's the point.
@@DanielGarcia-vu2md imagine a European country who wants to own the word "European" for themselves, even if there are plenty of other European countries in Europe. Unbelievable right? That's what "US" do in english with the word "American". I have just found a solution😅, we can use the words "US citizens" 😅
1. Anteayer (noun) = antes de ayer = two days ago
2. Pasado mañana (noun) = the day after tomorrow
3. Empalagar (verb)= cloy (literature) = make sb sick sweetness = be overly sweet
Empalagarse (verb, reflexive/reciprocate form)= to get sick of...(sweetness)
It can be used for sweet food but also for situations and personalities/attitudes
Empalagoso (adj) = cloying (not used in spoken English) = sickly-sweet
Empalagado (participle) = being sick sweet
4. Sobremesa (noun) = after dinner conversation/chat
It involves from a simple chat to sharing dessert, coffe/tea or a digestive liqueur
5. Friolento (adj) = (overly) sensitive to cold
6. Mono (noun) = monkey Monito = little monkey
Mono (slang in Chile, noun) = cartoons
Mono(a) (slang in Chile, noun) = hubby/wifey. It's an affectionate way to call a partner
Mono (slang in Mexico, noun) = a dool
Mono (slang in Spain and other countries, adjective) = cute
Mono (greek prefix) = one, single, unique
Mona (slang in Latin America, noun, female of mono) = drunkenness, the state of being drunk
Bonus
7. Estadounidense (noun, adj) = American
Americano (noun, adj) = from The Americas (It/he/she can be from Canada to Chile)
In Spain they often use americano as american though
I'll add:
6. Mono (noun) (at least in Spain, related to clothes) = a) working overalls, b) like a dress but with pants instead of skirt
@@irnphuh5826 Yeah, you are right. I wasn't aware of that.
a) Mono (Spain) = Overall or Boiler Suit (English) = Overol (Chile) = Overall (South America) = Mameluco (Chile, Argentine, Uruguay)
Mameluco in Chile also means clumsy, although it's an old fashioned word.
b) Mono largo (Spain) = Jumpsuit (English) = Enterizo (Latin America)= Enterito (Chile)
Mono corto (Spain) = Playsuit (English) = Enterizo corto (Latin America)= Enterito corto (Chile)
for estadounidense, the correct word in english is usionian instead of american or US american, but again, not used a lot
Great job, thanks for all this detail! I have heard "cloying" used in spoken English.
6- Mona also means drunkenness in Spain.
one of my favorite words i've learned in spanish is tocayo/tocaya. which apparently is what you call someone who has the same name as you. really eager to meet another spanish speaking person with my name so i can finally use it!!
Technically, English has that, too: namesake.
It's really hard to find someone in Spain named Brandon. Well it was slightly common when Beverly Hills 90210 (the original series) was a thing; Brandon and Brenda where the main characters and that series stroke really hard in Spain in the early 90s.
English names in Latin America are really common but usually with the Spanish twist. Brian transformed into Brayan or Jennifer into Yenifer (no, not The Witcher one) which is how they are pronounced in Spanish.
I'm sure that Central America and countries like Perú and Colombia are full of Brandons, Kevins, Wilsons and the like.
@@IceMetalPunk namesake has more of the meaning "a person you where named after" where tocayo doesn't have that same implication at all. it literally just means we have the same name but can be total unrelated strangers/non famous.
@@emarin2006ftw While that's often the context you hear "namesake" in, it's not actually part of the definition. Anything that has the same name is a namesake.
Soy española y nunca he escuchado "friolento" siempre he dicho "friolero/a". Y el mono, además de lo que han dicho puede ser también una pieza de ropa y el síndrome de abstinencia xDD (y puede que alguna cosa más jajaja)
Al menos en Argentina es una palabra común para referirse a alguien que vive constantemente con frío, friolento. Friolera en cambio se utiliza en un contexto general como decir "terrible la friolera que está haciendo" o lo mismo que terrible el frío que está haciendo.
Nunca escuché friolera, y friolento es cuando el clima se pone frío de golpe y sientes ese frío por todo tu cuerpo por un buen rato así que dices me siento o estoy friolento.
Supongo que dependerá de las zonas. Por aquí siempre hemos utilizado friolero o friolera para alguien que siempre tiene frío o también en el contexto que comentaba Agostoic. Me encanta esto de que un mismo idioma se perciba y se utilice de maneras diferentes dependiendo la localización de sus hablantes, es genial!
No sabía de friolero hasta ahora que lo escriben siempre friolento en Puerto Rico.
Mono puede significar uno como prefijo, por ejemplo monolito o monocolor, también lindo y coqueto como el cute en inglés, también como genérico de primate, además asociado al significado de primate se dice de alguien que copia a otro, es como un mono, también es una ropa de una sola pieza usada por trabajadores y que luego se ha popularizado para vestir de calle también como moda, también significa síndrome de abstienencia, y luego mona es una borrachera.
This reminds me of the time I met Ryan, a boy from the United States who came to Spain as an exchange student, when he introduced himself he said "Hola, me llamo Ryan y vengo de América" which translates as "hi my name is ryan and i come from america", I asked him what part of America was he from? he told me he came from the state of Utah. I told him, so you are "Estadounidense" or "citizen of the United States of America" not "American". I still remember his confused face😂
America and Americas, big difference.
@@Apache148414 In English but América is a continent in Spanish.
@@Apache148414 America is a continent, not a country, it's like calling a country "europe" doesn't make sense. As I am Spaniard I am also European, but if I introduce myself to someone I do not say "I am European" or "I come from Europe", Europe is a continent with a large number of people, cultures, nations or ethnic groups, I cannot represent all of them. So the natural thing is to say "I come from Spain" or "I am Spaniard".
@@lorddemon8019 North and South America are continents. There is no country called the United States of Europe, but there IS the United States of AMERICA. For more than 90% of the world’s population America = the USA. Besides, what would call someone from the USA? United Statesian LOL?
@@Apache148414 No, en Español no existe eso .
I recently found out that in English there actually is a word for the day before yesterday and it's ereyesterday. Same counts for the day after tomorrow, which is overmorrow.
In Dutch we have very similar words: eergisteren and overmorgen. We actually still use those words too
Thank you!! I remember reading about this long time ago but I could remember what was it.
"Enchufe" is great example. I believe it's used only in Spain. It refers to an important person to know that can help you get ahead in your career. Someone who's "plugged in".
@@goldvideo omg, in Mexico we say "palanca" as in "Subió de puesto por palancas", I believe that's what you mean with "enchufe"
Those are old words in English. Nobody uses those anymore. They make you sound like you're reading a Shakespearean play. LOL.
@@goldvideo It also means plug, it's most common use is a wall plug where you plug things into it, what you're saying would be "enchufado" or "enchufada" (if it's a woman)
There's another word in Spanish that we use a lot and has no translation in English (well it actually has two meanings but the second one has no translation):
Desvelado: one meaning is "unveil" but the other one we use it when you wake up in the middle of your sleep and cannot sleep again anymore.
Now that’s a word I could use. In English we would just call that insomnia but insomnia basically just means trouble sleeping and is a broad term.
In Brazil we'd say "caiu da cama" (fell from bed) - and it can also be used as a joke for someone waking up much earlier than usual if they like to sleep in.
English doesn't have a direct one-word translation but you can perfectly express the same thing even with more naunces.
Anoche me desvelé porque hacía muchísimo calor.
Last night I was unable to get to sleep because it was really hot.
Mis amigas y yo nos desvelamos en la pijamada.
My friends and I stayed awake at the sleepover.
La película de terror me desveló.
The horror movie kept me awake.
@@seilahqlq1 in Spanish we have the same expression to.
It’s sleep deprived
This is probably one of the most riveting episodes to watch. I love everyone in this vid, especially that Mexican girl. She looks fun!!
They need a chilean girl there, they would need to translate twice first to spanish then to english 😂
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@@danieldatsik3825 Chilean is to Spanish what Spanish is to Latin.
weon la weá x_x
love the idea :D
@@brolin96 yea, sort of.
Was I lucky that I didn't learn Spanish from my Chilean colleague?
Mamihlapinatapai describes "a look between two people, each of whom waits for the other to start an action that they both want but neither has the courage to initiate." This word is from the Yámana indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
This was fun - I really love learning new Spanish words that I can flex 😂
It’s quite a bummer that in the US, our education system doesn’t prioritize language the way other countries do. Just have to put in the work to make up for it 😎
in Argentina we say "todo piola amigo?" and it means "how you're doing bro?" it's a friendly casual greeting
Me, a Portuguese, feeling all powerful for understanding some of those words because they're similar in portuguese
I find the way Christina speaks so soothing
In Brazil we have the word SAUDADE, that means the feeling of missing sadly or kindly someone, or a moment. And we also have CAFUNÉ, wich means a petting hand in the head of someone you love. We also have DENGO, that means love, or dear one.
I learned that world from a brazilian friend and I loved it because when I was living in the USA alone for the first time in my life I felt a lot of “saudade”! :(
In Spanish "saudade" (which by the way is a very beautiful word and the title of a Richard Marx song) means "melancolía" and in English "melancholy".
@@albertmas3752 AFAIK, it's not "exactly" melancolía, it was so extremely difficult to translate, that Spanish literally took the whole word itself. (So the translation of the portuguese word "Saudade", is the spanish word "Saudade")
In Galicia, Spain, we have "morriña" and it has a similar meaning. Spanish don't have a word like that, so other regions of Spain borrow "morriña" from galician. It's more related to miss a place, your home, everything that makes your home be a home... Hard to explain haha
@@hp5682 Absolutely, it's exactly "morriña" but I guess it's used only in Spain ...in Latin America we say "Saudade" because the word is so difficult to explain that we had to took over the brazilian word. Not another solution in sight.
For female and male nouns the closest cheat I could suggest is if the Noun’s last vowel is and “a” then “La”is used before (La casa La rata, La sopa, la mesa… the house, the rat, the soup, the table)
If the noun’s last vowels are an “e” or “o” then “El” is used. (El ratón, el sol, el pez… the mouse, the sun, the fish.
Obviously there are exceptions like saying The afternoon… La tarde. Also if the subject is actually a female or male ( like a woman or man, or animal’s gender) then you may change it to describe their gender
El Gato, La gata (the male cat, the female cat)
El astronauta, la astronauta (the male astronaut, the female astronaut)
The water this is crazy to me. Like for agua you use “el” like its male but then the adjective should be female like “el agua fria” 😵💫
La mano, el agua, el mapa, el tema, el sistema, el problema, and thousands more contradictions to this fem/ masc rule
I'm so glad I learned many languages from the time I was born.
Me diverti mucho viendo el vídeo, mi amor por aprender nuevos idiomas crece cada vez más :D
I really loved your video. I know in each language there will be some weird words that cannot translate them into some languages, meaning how beautiful are our different cultures. As an Spanish native speaker, one of my favourite words that cannot translate it into English is “ensimismarse”.
I've heard the term self-absorbed with a very close meaning to "ensimismado"; although it can also be close to selfish, so it's not quite the same
@@nachoijp It could work, but "ensimismarse" has a negative vibe to it. Kinda like being depressed.
@@brolin96 good point, for that meaning they have "brooding" but it misses the getting into oneself vibe, so yeah...
@@brolin96 this world has nothing to do with depression in any way. The correct expression in English (I don't know if there is a word for it) is "to be lost in someone's own thoughts". For example "I was lost in my own thoughts" - "(Yo) estaba ensimismado". It means the person was distracted thinking about something and yes, it usually has a bad meaning because we usually say it when we are supposed to be doing something but we are distracted thinking about something else.
Soy nativa del español y nunca había escuchado esa palabra, nisiquiera sabía que existía.😅😂😂
Sobremesa in Portuguese has the same meaning as “postre” in Spanish and “dessert” in English.
“Friolento” is “friorento”.
Temos todas essas palavras em português, né? Anteayer é anteontem, sobremesa é igual, mono é macaco, etc…
@@theeusmatheus temos
@@theeusmatheus temos mesmo
@@theeusmatheus sobremesa não e o mesmo em espanhol, em português e comida doce em espanhol e o efeito de ficar mais tempo na mesa pra falar com a família o com os amigos (eu como nativo falante de espanhol jamais pensei que sobremesa significa isso no meu idioma kkkkkkk)
@@theeusmatheus não temos empalagar, temos?
Eu sempre falo "saturado de doce". Acho que a que chega mais perto é "empapuçado", mas não é só pra doce, serve pra muita coisa, desde bebida até carne hahaha. Existe alguma que eu esqueci?
Some parts of the Uk-specifically the midlands where I live-use the slang word "nesh", which literally has the same meaning as "friolento"
As a non-native Spanish speaker I saw friolento and immediately put frio (cold) and violento (violent) together and thought "shiver."
προχθές, απόγιομα, λιγώθηκα, κρυουλιάρης, but then again Greek is also famous for having words that are hard to translate! Nice to see other countries have some of them, too. Lovely video, girls
Greece is awesome 🇪🇸❤️🇬🇷
Spanish does have a good bunch of Greek words. But what European language doesn't, right?
It still gets me that English speaking people ditched "ereyesterday" for "two days ago" and "overmorrow" for "the day after tomorrow" :( There used to be a single word for both these expressions a looooooong time ago, but I guess they must have fallen out of fashion at some point. Petition to start using those beautiful words again, they're so much more efficient.
ohhh this is so interesting knowing that they also used to say "on the morrow" before it became "tomorrow"
@@dracology8078 ohhh that reminds me in Scotland they say the morra which means 'the morrow" or tomorrow
I don't know but I would've said "day before yesterday", just as we would say "day after tomorrow". It is like that the "two days ago" isn't used here and doesn't has the same feel as well. Hence, I find "day before yesterday" more convenient
@@niccolopaganini1782 oh really? I always have the impression that "two days ago" is used much more frequently than "the day before yesterday". The latter feels rather clunky, so I personally never use it. I also don't really use "the day after tomorrow" tho, I just say the appropriate weekday. I mean, I am an ESL speaker, but even from what I have observed in native speakers, I haven't heard those long expressions much compared to the shorter ones.
Do it ! Use them.
In Spain is friolero, not friolento.
Friolento is absolutely used in several South American countries.
@@amiquigonzales7917 Ya, es que allá además de tener frío son violentos
@@henhaooahneh Nada que ver, los sudamericanos así nomás no entramos en guerras violentas ..... Y con climas tropicales, no es lógico tener tanto frío pero habemos gente con mucho frío aún si hay un sol esplendoroso.
@@henhaooahneh nice pun, lol
Habemos gente? No se, Latinoamérica no destaca precisamente por hablar correctamente, mucha sintaxis inglesa y más… aquí en España somos más estrictos con el lenguaje en general creo.
I used to complain cuz I had to learn English, after that happened I realized that having Spanish as my mother language was just the best that could happen to me 😅
My favorite word in Spanish that doesn't have a good translation is "pendiente" which is like I am available to you- at your beck and call- but without the negative connotation. More like I am here for you if you need me. It encompasses this idea so succinctly, I love it.
also "pendiente" means something that you have to do but you haven't done yet. Something that is not yet resolved. It translates directly as pending, or a unsettled thing
Pendiente also simply means pending.
I think in English that could translate to being in the lookout, or to look forward for something. That something can be a person, a meeting, a delivery, some news, etc.
Also besides pending, it can mean slope or earring, so it depends on the context.
There was this one-single-word in english for “the day before yesterday”, this word was “ereyesterday” and for “the day after tomorrow” (in Spanish is “pasado mañana”)” the one-single-word was “overmorrow”. Both words are "obsolete" or "archaic," which means they are no longer used in modern English.
That's interesting! I know thay German has words like "vorgestern" (="anteayer"), so I was wondering if English ever had a... "foreyesterday" or something of that sort.
Yes , and Spanish "Tú" is "Thou" in old usage English; "tuyo" is "thine" , "tí" is "thee". That´s looking at the past, while looking to the future the verb "to stay" is in its way to mean exactly as its cognate "estar", a temporary "to be".
@@powerdriller4124Stay comes from Old French “estayer/estaier” which was used in the same way as the Spanish “estar”. Modern French merged the verbs “estre” (Latin: essere) and estar. We only use “être” (^ = dropped s) nowadays, but the conjugation is a mix of the 2 verbs. English dropped the initial “e” that Spanish and French have: estair/estar vs English stay and Italian/Latin stare.
When I was at University, I would use ereyesterday and overmorrow in essays and they were always accepted :D Those are obsolete, but still part of the English language :)
@@acsm9436 , that’s very interesting! I only know a little German, not even enough to have a very basic conversation with someone else. Actually, learning German is one of my main goals!
There is no single word for "toe" in Spanish. It's "dedo del pie", which literally translates to "fingers of the feet".
Actually, there is. It's "ortejo"
@@uppereight Is that more of a regional word? Reason I ask is the native speakers I work with are from El Salvador and Mexico told me they didn’t know of a single word for it.
It's ñoños in Canarian Spanish
@@Maidaseu Iba a decir lo mismo xD
If you go to the Castilian regions of Spain, where Spanish has been spoken for 1200 years, you´ll find all those single English words or English idioms that supposedly cannot be translated to Spanish without a circumlocution.
another common used of mono in Spain refers to an anxious feeling of needing of wanting something so bad, usually drug related as when you've spent some time without consuming and the addiction is kicking hard. But you can also use it for good related contexts.
Another Spanish video with Christina, Callie, Andrea 🇲🇽 and Andrea 🇪🇸 yay
tambien tenemos la palabra "estrenar" (usar algo or primera vez, ya sea una prenda de vestir, un automovil etc...)
But for that there’s the English word debut
@@LHollan but no one says- I’m debuting my dress today- there is no equivalent word
@@mchancey73 English does have a word for "estrenar", only not in the context of wearing a piece of clothing. Not that it's very important. Not even in Spanish-speaking countries we say "hoy estreno zapatos" a lot.
For some of these we have words or expressions in British English. For example with "empalagar" we would use the term "sickly" for when something that is too sweet that you cant have too much of it. Although for couples and food we would use the word "cloying". They are both English words but Americans dont tend to use them often or in that way but in the UK we do. Still a fun video though :-)
In the USA we say sickly sweet. For us to say sickly alone would convey a different meaning
@@anndeecosita3586 that makes sense. Sometimes we even say it as "sickly sweet" too :-) .Traditionally we use "sickly" in the old way to mean "ill" or "unwell" but much less often than we used to and its usually just used that way in much more formal speech or writing these days. So its more that we have just repurposed it :-)
"sickly" is an adjective though. "empalagar" is a verb. We don't have a verb in english for that.
As a Mexican-American the word empalagar is closer in my mind to “sticky sweet”. As if you made a syrupy drink or lemonade and we used it more to refer to someone being so cuddly to the point of being suffocating or obnoxiously clingy.
Empalagar, Pasadomañana , Anteayer (antier), Friolento
Trasnocharse/desvelarse
Madrugar
Estrenar
Guerrilla
Provecho
Lampiño
Etc. Etc.
Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
I enjoyed this video. Really nice conversation.
I love spanish! I can't wait for portuguese content too xD
Try my favorite word in Spanish:
“Pedigüeñería"
The fact of ask something frequently to the point of annoy the people you're asking to.
"It's about time"
That delivery was awesome
About what Callie said at the very beginning... I am a native Spanish speaker and I'm learning Polish (they also use gender for things). The problem is that the things that are feminine in Poland are not the same ones that are feminine in Spanish (and the same with masculine) so I have to re-learn the gender of things. EXTREMELY confusing.
🤣🤣Try German...
@@ZZMJo I was about to write that! I herad that swahili is even worse.
Even between Italian and Spanish there are gender differences, even if the words sound similar. Milk and flowers are feminine in Spanish, but masculine in Italian. The opposite with maps.
@@myriampro4973 Swahili pronunciation: try the P! 🤣🤣
@@ZZMJo next on my list! I love to suffer LMAO
@@GayMuses ☺
1 Mono is also worker clothes, the full body blue suit for workers? That is a mono too.
2 Also has another meaning, when you stop smoking or letting some habits, and still you think about that cause your minds demands you, that’s mono too.
Yes, I think that was what they should have explained but neither of them knew it
I love this four person duo, really great chemistry and they’re all lovable unique individuals, :))
I think "quartet" would make more sense. I was super confused at first by "four person duo."
@@ElPayasoMalo quite sure they meant four person divided in two (duo) pairs...
English used to have a word that means the day before yesterday, same for the day after tomorrow: ereyesterday and overmorrow, two words I love to use since they’re not common anymore lol
Andrea from Mexico 🇲🇽 has amazing personality 😄
Definitely! 😃 She's such a goofball! 😂😂😂
Anteayer is "the day before yesterday". Mono is cute (or monkey). Sobremesa is afterlunch period. Empalaga is cloying.
To be fair, there is a lot of English vocabulary that even native speakers do not use on daily basis.
Two other words that I would contribute, from River Plate Spanish (Argentina and probably Uruguay) are: Chamuyo, which can be used as a verb "Chamuyar" which has different connotations, but it is trying to convince someone through words, it can range from trying to conquer a woman, the talk of a used car salesman to a friend who arrives half an hour late and says he was in trouble because of a traffic accident, when in fact he stayed too long playing computer. The other is "buenudo/a". It's basically a mix between good and stupid. The union of bueno and boludo. Something like "goodumb". When someone is too good for their own good and has one foot on each side of the line that divides goodness from stupidity. Another word that is from the Spanish language in general is "Aguntar". Its meaning can range from holding your breath to resisting the urge to go to the bathroom, putting up with your boss, to a shelf with books that supports their weight. Support, tolerate, resist, are some of its meanings. There is a song by Residente called "el aguante".
That's interesting 👀
For "Chamuyar" we have "Camelar" in Spain. I'm not sure if it is used or even known outside this country, though 🤔
As for me, I have definitely never heard of the word "Chamuyar" before 😅
I freakin love getting to know all this kind of stuff about the language we share 😃
Supuestamente el origen de Chamuyar es gitano. Por eso en España tienen Camelar que viene de ahí. En el río de la plata no sufrió muchos cambios esa palabra, quizás más del significado ya que Chamuyar creo que simplemente significa hablar
@@mayrabuxareo3912 Interesante información. Chamuyar es un poco más que hablar, depende del contexto. Si alguien dice " me estás chamuyando" básicamente significa "me estás mintiendo", si dice " se está chamuyando a la mina" se entiende como "está tratando de conquistar a la mujer". Si se dice de un par de personas, "se la pasan chamuyando" ahí si, sería hablando sin otra connotación. Llamar a alguien un chamuyero ( puede ser con ll también) es decirle un charlatán, mentiroso, o, al menos, alguien poco confiable.
@@madago4785 Claro, si, pero no me refería al significado de argentina sino al original
@@mayrabuxareo3912 Ah, ok.
One of my favorites words in Spanish that does not have an English equivalent is "Provecho".
You can say it to someone who's about to eat or when leaving a group meal and the others are still eating, it's akin to "Bon appetit", but it can also be used in a different context with a totally different meaning that would loosely translate to "make the most of", for example, when someone just got offered a fully paid scholarship to study French and you tell them to better make the most out of it "Sácale provecho" / "aprovéchalo".
There's also "despedirse" which means "to say goodbye"!
Mono can be translated to a lot of things from where I am from, can be "monkey", can be "one". but I think the meaning of mono that doesn't have a translation to english is "a representation of a person". You can draw a stick figure with head, arms and legs thats a mono, you can see a cartoon character and thats a mono , you can make you our doll with sticks and ragas and that also would be a mono.
simulacra maybe
as a native spanish speaker it's a little insane to me how English doesn't really have a native phrase like "buen provecho" to enjoy your food. I've seen a lot of English speakers say "bon appetit" but that's french and it doesn't really count for me
That's how they say it, the same way in Latin America we say "saudade" from Portuguese for the feeling of "being nostalgic and sad for the past, missing loved ones and home" and call a first time a "debut" in French. In English they use "bon appetit" whenever they want to express "buen provecho", I was told once by my English teacher that it is not considered extremely polite to express such a thing to someone who's going to have a meal, thus a cultural thing.
yess! the same as "buen viaje"
@@amiquigonzales7917 the feeling of being nostalgic is añoranza in spanish, I don't think I've ever heard saudade unless the person was speaking portuguese, "debut" also has a direct translation "estrenar". Spanish is rich in vocabulary because of its latin roots.
@@cristal1460 Hi, maybe it's a South American thing, we call it "saudade". It's more than "añoranza", it's this melancholical feeling of being nostalgic and sad missing a beloved someone or something which is far away temporarily or permanently, wishing to have it closer and often knowing that maybe this beloved someone or something will never be back. Ask Brazilians, they taught us how to respect the term "saudade".
@@amiquigonzales7917 that's the exact definition of añoranza. And as a neighbour country (and personally, city) of Brazil, brazilians literally cross to my country evry day and so do we; I know this word is the same as saudade.
I clicked on this video out of curiosity and it's really good, but I noticed
1) There is a word for «anteayer» in English: 'ereyesterday'. It's archaic and we don't really use it anymore, but we do have that. Similarly, we have a word for the day after tomorrow: 'overmorrow'.
2) «Sobremesa» is actually a word that's used in English (borrowed from Spanish) that has the same meaning.
3) For «empalagar», the word 'to sicken' works just as well.
The «anteayer» one was what made me decide that I wanted to drop a comment because we do have that word in English.
Another thing that came of as confusing to me is when one of the Americans said that she had heard that English lacks words. It's widely known that English is one of the most lexically rich languages in the world; the English Wiktionary has 578,707 headwords (ie, individual words) and 1,317,179 definitions which, according to the page listing languages by the number of words in a dictionary, makes English the seventh most lexically rich language in the world only beaten by Swedish, Kurdish, Tamil, Finnish, Portuguese, and Korean.
All in all, the video was interesting, but to say that the Spanish words are impossible to translate is rather misleading when three of the five (ie, 60%) of them are not only perfectly translatable but can be done so rather simply.
In Colombia (or at least how we use it in my family) sobremesa is just the drink you have with a meal, so it can be fruit juice, or alcohol, or water or coffee
"Mono", in spanish is also a type of work clothes. Normally for car mechanics or similar.
In Brazil is similar: the animal is "macaco" (monkey), and the clothing "macacão" (overalls).
Callie saying it's confusing that in Spanish objects can be male or female... Me as a German laughing because in German objects can be female, male or neutral 😂😅 really glad that I hadn't to learn it and just get used to it😅
Oh ja da hast du recht
Die armen Leute, die deutsch lernen 😅🙈
You know what's more confusing? We in the Czech Republic also have gendered objects (male, female, neutral), but they are almost always different from the ones in German. Most of our schools teach German as a 2nd foreign language, and it's really hard for us to accept that for example a "chair" is suddenly male in German, while it's female in Czech 😆
It is more confusing to learn the grammatical gender of a word in one language is different in another.
La mesa es un sustantivo femenino. (Der Tisch ist ein weibliches Substantiv.)
And they don't make sense. Spoons are masculine, forks are feminine, and knives are neutral. ...How did you guys get a reputation for being logical? 😃
In spanish even the weather have gender lol
Im glad Im a native spanish speaker becuase if I was not I will lose my mind 😂
Christina and Callie had actually a point about the mono thing since mono means one or single in Latin. Mono is one of the many roman reminiscences present in English language nowadays, mostly used in technicisms. Well done guys.
In ancient Greek not Latin.
@@albertmas3752 Well yes, but Latin was the language that extended its domain all over Europe 👍
I love these girls!
"Mono" has also another meaning, but not a nice one. In Spain, "estar con el mono" (to be with), "tener el mono" (to have) and "pasar el mono" (to pass, to be passing) are the slang for drug addiction abstinence (mostly heroin or any other opioid) or "cold turkey".
"Friolento" may be used in Latin America, but not (much) in Spain, where they use "friolero".
That word empalagar has a direct translation in my native language (telugu) lol and it's a feeling you get when you eat too much sweets and oily food and you're no longer able to eat them, but different from being full imao 😂😂😂 that's so confusing lol
Haa Egatu vacchesindi antam memaithe😊
In Filipino we have an equivalent word too, "súya". In my regional language it would be "úma".
Lmao we have it in french too! It's "écœurant" (pronounced ehkeran, and the 2nd e is pronounced like the o in word or world)
@@satya7900 hmm 'అది వెగటు కొట్టింది' అంటాము
@@girlsquad224 i think commonly its more of "umay"
2:19 She has pronounced it very well.
Me da mucha risa como lo pronuncian 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Saludos desde México 🇲🇽 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Bienvendio desde esrados unidos
The same I felt when I learnt that English nouns are neutral like how is it possible?
My first two languages are Chinese and Italian, but I have never thought about it, in fact in Italian is like Spanish both of them are neolatin languages so, also French has male female, but in Chinese things' names are neutral😂 and I've never noticed it
I’m really curious how you guys memorize everything’s “gender”! And if something new is invented, how do you know if it’s male or female?
@@sydneyliu4825 because the words end in A or O, since A and O are the vocals for female and male lets say
Most male words end with O,E Cajón, Perro, Gato, Enchufe,
Female words with A, Comida, mesa, cuchara.
El Cajón (El = He)
El perro
El gato
el enchufe
La Pelea (she)
La comida
la mesa
la cuchara
@@GatoPatataGameplays Thanks~
Interesting to see someone’s first languages as Chinese and Italian. Usually when someone learns a second language it tends to be English or a language of a neighbouring country. Italian and Chinese are an interesting pair. Is one of your parents from Italy and the other from China or something? Sorry, I just thought it was cool.
its weird the fact that english nouns are neutral when most languajes nouns arent, at it makes it quite hard tbh
8:39 In Spain it is said "friolero".
03:14 😂 These 4 together are just hilarious!
I didn't know spanish has the "sobremesa" word for dessert as well as us, portuguese speaking countries! I thought it was just "postre". Good to know!
Nosotros usamos postre también, pero es para un dulce o un salado después del segundo plato. La sobremesa suele estar acompañada con un café y hablamos entre las personas de la comida.
More than something related to desserts, it is about the time of staying at the table once the meal (including desserts) is over, chatting and probably also drinking, for hours! "Dessert" is just "postre" in Spanish.
I wish they had added a word with "ñ". I've noticed that this consonant is probably the hardest for non-Spanish speakers, mainly (from personal experience) English speakers. Not even the rolled r's" are as difficult as ñ. I still have to find a person who can pronounce it correctly.
I say piña like “pinya” more or less and it sounds good enough. Or “banyo” for baño
Thanks to Ñ, now I can write the sound Japanese cats make correctly in Roman Alphabets. It is Ñaaa...Ñaaa...
Really? I feel like everyone understands ñ, rr is definitely harder
@@eeeeggnog._. so far with the people I've tested this they can pronounce r-rr but not ñ
Italians pronounce the gn sound which sounds almost exactly as the ñ
Many languages have just one word for "the day before yesterday" or "the day after tomorrow" (so that originally American 3-word movie title was translated with just one word into such languages). Probably, Old English also had them but lost. But there are opposite examples e.g. "fortnight" in English (mostly BrE, I guess) that you have to explain like "two weeks" in other languages.
Warm fuzzy feeling
.cozy
I had a great time with these lovely ladies! I learned a lot of new words and will definitely be using friolenta haha -Christina 🇺🇸
Hi , Christina , i loved the video and your reactions too about these words 😂🇺🇲❤
@@henri191 Glad you enjoyed! :D
This is so interesting. Though I will say that I've run into a lot of situations where it's the opposite and English has a word that doesn't exist in another language too. I imagine all languages have this but it's fun to hear what they are.
Of course, you're absolutely right. English actually has a lot _more_ words for things that Spanish does not have a direct equivalent to, than the other way around. But still a fun video.
@@erickpalacios8904 it’s probably because the Americans don’t know much Spanish. When there is a word they don’t know the Spanish word for, they just assume they don’t know the translation, not that Spanish actually has no word for it. Were as the Spanish people seem near fluent in English and probably see English a lot so know most words in English that they would want to say and are constantly using English so they would notice it more often.
@@rachelcookie321 I'm not saying the Spanish words don't exist, I'm only saying that English has a lot more words than Spanish. That's just a fact, and not an opinion. This is why Spanish recycles the same word to mean more things at a higher rate than English. Therefore, there will be no unique, free-standing word in Spanish for many English words.
What I liked the most is that she was still confused by the simplest of all the words lol
This would be fun on french with that words with really similar pronuntiation but completely different meaning
The day before yesterday = two days ago
I think people use "day before yesterday" for anteayer also, which is pretty much a literal translation.
And sobremesa and empalagar were great words. I think anyone would understand "sobremesa" in the context of family meals during the holidays were everyone stays seated at the table talking. Sobremesa is basically the time spent sitting at the table once everyone's finished eating, typically the plates get taken away and people chat and drink.
And "empalagoso" is pretty close to sickly sweet, or something so rich and sweet that you can only have a little bit at a time.
Christina además de ser muy guapa, se la ve muy natural, alegre y simpática. Tendría mucho éxito como comunicadora o actriz. Le veo un aire a Sharon Stone
I enjoy so much when Spain and Mexico are at the discussion.
3:28 fun fact: in Shakespearean times there was a word for the day after tomorrow “Overmorrow”
I like to see Andrea explaining the meaning of "pedo" in Mexican
"I am feeling cold, lonely, tired, and miserable."
Meanwhile in most of Europe:
Amfeelingcoldlonelytiredmiserable
Where I live we have an English slang word that is similar to mono. Joint (pronounced like jaunt with a soft "T" sound)
It can be used really for anything like "get that jaunt", or "look at my lil jaunt"
That's the closest I could think of
I had a blast with these ladies! ❤️ It was really interesting learning these new words- I can never forget mono now 😆
Hello , Callie , you are getting more close to the others and making a good US duo with Christina 🇺🇲
@@henri191 Thanks Carl! I’m still a bit shy and awkward on camera but the girls are great and definitely make me feel more comfortable ❤️ It’s been fun getting to know everyone more!
I love how Andrea is such a common Spanish name that they both have it
It confuses me that both in America and in Spain Andrea is a feminine name when in Italian it's a masculine name..and the name comes from a Greek word that literally means *man* not as in "human" but as in *male* human!😵
@@Nicamon That's where the prefix "andro-" come from. Latin took it from Greek, French took it from Latin, and English took it from French.
@@BlackHoleSpain Yeah,exactly.
@@Nicamon Andrea masculine?!?
@@perla5465 *YES!!!* The feminine version in Italian would be"Andreina",but I don't think it's very common...🤔
3:01 Even though it’s not an actual word Anteayer is literally just translated as “the day before yesterday”.
Even in my state in Mexico we have words that do not exist in Spanish as they're regionalisms so, sometimes people from the North side can't understand what someone from the center or South is talking about and sometimes we have same slang but it's used the opposite way. For example, we use pelado to say something is pretty easy, however in the center of Mexico they use pelado to say something it's really complicated or difficult. And at least in my state we have a lot of words that come from the Yaqui dialect that are commonly used on a daily basis
What Callie said about how do we know a table is female with "La mesa", it really made me overthink all my existence as a native Spanish speaker 😂
But as I remember, in spanish we have this thing that could be a little confusing for foreigners (cuz it could be a few exceptions) that is the nouns ended with "-a" are female because most of the female names (in spanish) end like so such as "Andrea", for instance. On the other hand nouns ended with "-o" are male because most of male names end with 'o', like "Pedro". That's the explanation I remember from school :D (Hispanos, correct me if I'm wrong)
that doesn't apply to all spanish nouns, just the majority
Yupp
This series of videos has been awesome and the ladies seem to be having great fun!
I never heard before that "sobremesa" is a time after meals. I always hear that "sobremesa" is a cover for a table. Very interesting haha.
Anteayer basically means "the day before yesterday"
I'm a Spanish native speaker and I've never heard "sobremesa". The vocabulary depends on the country and sometimes even the areas of a particular country. In my country we don't use "mono" for cute or doll, just for monkey and as a prefix for one (which comes from Latin). Fun video, even I learned a few things! :D
Edit: my family reminded me that some people from Nicaragua (at least in the Pacific coast of the country) use the word "mono" with individuals who don't know how to use certain things (particularly in regards to technology) and/or are not aware of social conventionalisms within certain (or many) contexts. This meaning of the word definitely has a negative connotation. It's generally used for making fun of others. I would argue that it has a classist and ableist origin. Fortunately, the number of people that use the word in this offensive context are progressively declining.
soy de Peru y si he escuchado la palabra sobremesa PEEERO para referirse mas que nada a las cosas que estan encima de la mesa ajkaskjdsaj
@@GatoPatataGameplays fijate que yo pensé en ese posible significado cuando apenas mencionaron la palabra jajaja. Resultó que no era lol
@@andiehernandez1995 la verdad yo NUNCA habia escuchado a alguien decir SOBREMESA para referirse a quedarse mas tiempo comiendo no tiene sentido ajja
Que mono is very common in all of the southern coast of Spain (At least from Valencia to Malaga, but also Albacete and I know at least a few people from Madrid who also say it). As in, how cute. (Besides it's usage as a clothing piece (un mono) and as the monkey, of course).
La sobremesa significa el quedarse conversando luego de terminar de comer. La sobremesa puede incluir el comer un postre o tomar café pero esto no necesariamente.
In Cuba we say Antiel to mean anteayer :)
The "R" becomes "L" como "puerta" es "puelta"
@@JosephOccenoBFH veldad! LOL
I guess you’re from La Habana lol
xD
In Wales we have Cwtch (said like kutch) it's kind of a mix of a cuddle and a hug
Very nice.
Para mí sobremesa es cuando terminan de comer y se quedan conversando sin levantarse de la mesa, sin recoger los platos.
yo pense que el sobremesa era el souvenirs que hay en los cumpleaños
Puede ser ambos, por eso dicen que puede acompañarse con una bebida
Simplemente se refiere a pasar tiempo conversando después de la comida. Puede ser con un café o una copa de vino, pero no es estrictamente necesario.
Yo me imagine un mantel también jaja. Puede ser eso, también, no? Jaja
@@Pikachu-ez1rm éso mismo pensé yo, kinda like: "tablecloth" o algo así.