Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Spanish Slang 101

The things I learned living in Spain, and the things to remember to seem more like a REAL Spaniard:

ÓSTIA
i.e. ostía puta, malaostía, Soy la Óstia

JODER
VALE
¡Qué va!
La mala lecha
Dar la paliza
Echar una bronca

Me cago en la (pronounced: me ca-hwen)
ff. i.e.
-puta
-leche
-mar
-diez colorao
-todo (´to)

Acojonado/Acojonante: something scary
Acojonante/Cojonudo: something good

Con dos cojones y medio cerebro: to animate oneself

¡No me jodas!: Don´t joke with me (in the sense of shut up! you´re kidding!)

De puta madre: that something is amazingly fantastic

La/Tú puta madre: something really bad, actually cursing someone´s mother

¡No me digas!: shut up, don´t tell me!
¿Pero que dices?: but what are you saying??

Variations of Dude/Man:
Majo(a)
Tío(a)
Hombre
MUJER
Chavall/Chavalla

Me mola: I like it
Que mola: how cool
Comó me mola: i really like it

Pulling one´s leg
No me tocas los cojones
Tomando el pelo

In return to pulling your leg
Si que quieres Arroz Catalina

To signify a huge amount of something
Un montón
Un mogullon

Cagando leches: being rushed
Por si las moscas: in case...

Por si fueramos pocos, parió la abuela (la burra): when there´s damn too many people

¡Fatal!

Super+adj.: indicating something is TOTALLY something

...+ que te cagas: something is SUPER amazing





I should totally just be a cultural anthropologist... haha!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations....your spanish is really good!