Thursday, December 19, 2019

Further Spanish words - my name, wife, son and so on


People
English-Spanish
the boy - el nino
the girl (is) - la nina ...

English
my wife
my husband
my son
my daughter-in-law
his fiancee
my name is
his name is
her name is



Spanish
mi mujer (Mujer is woman, which is apparently the ok translation for wife in economical Spanish but in English it sounds rude to call your wife 'my woman'.)

mi esposo (The Spanish word esposo sounds like the English word spouse. Note that o for man and a for a woman.)

mi hijo

mi nuera

su prometida (like the English word promised)

Me llamo

se llama

su nombre es

I picked out a series of sentences I wanted to say in Spanish and ran them through Google Translate (which is translate google in the search).

I laboriously copied each translated word. On returning to a set which I had not yet matched up, I found it interesting to test whether I could translate back from the Spanish to the English and vice versa. So I have decided to leave the untranslated version so that you can read down and go back and try doing this until you know every word or most words.

About The Author

Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, blogger, author of 20 books including an ebook on Improve Your English, from Amazon, and teacher of English and Business English and other languages to individuals, colleges and companies. For more information on learning languages see the previous posts. For information on sites to see in Spain and Portugal see the other posts. Please bookmark your favourite posts and share the links with your family, friends and colleagues.

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