ayer - yesterday
hoy - today ("oy" -h is silent at beginning of words)
mañana - tomorrow (ma nya na)
la noche - night
anoche - last night
el tiempo - time
el fin - the end
nada es igual - nothing's the same
nunca - never
cuando - when
donde - where
siempre - always
para siempre - forever
Don't freak out!!!!!!
You will be amazed at how quickly you begin to pick these words out of
songs. REALLY!!!! and each one gives a glimpse of meaning. You begin to
recognize these words
as the root word in many different words.
me gusta - I enjoy
quiero - I want
te quiero - I love you
te amo - I love you
extraño - to miss (ñ = ny= extranyo)
te extraño - I miss you
como extraño - How I miss
tanto - so much
caricia - carress
cariño - affection (ca ree nyoh)
más allá - beyond (mas ah yah)
loca, locura - someone's going mad!
enamorado - in love
any word that begins with amo, ama, ame - is probably related to amor=love
It is good to use spanish words thrown in your english sentences.
I did that a lot too. It helps you match the picture to the spanish
word - so you understand what you hear & say WITHOUT
translation. That is what you want your brain to do - not translate,
but to understand it in Spanish. The hard thing is this - but
it is not hard once you realize what is happening instead:
many times they don't use pronouns like he, she or I!!!! You
see verbs & don't know who is doing what. But they incorporate
their pronouns INTO the verb. Here is what they do with the word
BUSCAR:
busco - I search
buscas - you search - familiar form
busca - he, or she or you(polite form) searches
buscamos - we search
buscan - plural, they or "you all" search
You recognize it in "Un hombre busca una mujer" = a man searches for a woman.
So with the verbs, you will recognize the "root" of the word
that is always there, then the ending tells you "who dunnit!"
sometimes they use pronouns:
yo - I
usted - you, polite
tú - you
él - he
ella - she
nosotros - we
ellos - them
Buscamos a Luis! - We search for Luis!/we're searching for Luis.
They also put the word "me" (means me but pronounced "may") on
the ends of some verbs which is an easy way to ask someone to do
something to or for you.
abrazar (brazos=arms, abrazar=embrace)
abrazame=embrace/hold me
besar (to kiss) = besame = kiss me - (bay sah may)
escuchar (to listen) = escuchame = listen to me
miéntame - lie to me
mirar (to look) = mirame = look at me - (mere ah may)
Also, worth mentioning is that the person in front of the verb, is the
one getting something done to them - "me habla"=she/he spoke to me.
If I spoke to her/him, it would be "hablo a el/ella." Notice the "o"
on the end of the verb hablar (hablo) that makes it first person.
a sounds like ah
e sounds like long eh
i sounds like long e
o sounds like long o
u sounds like oo-notice how WE pronounce this letter using a "y" on
the front!
So when you say your "a,e,i,o & u" in spanish it sounds like
"ah, eh, e, o, & oo."
Keep sneaking in spanish words, you will be surprised how they become
part of your brain, don't worry if right or wrong person (for now), just
get that meaning working in your brain now!
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