Spanisch | Englisch |
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una noun | eeny, meeny, miny, moe(similar children's counting-out games in other languages) |
una {f} | an(indefinite article) |
una pronoun {f} | they(one, people, some people) |
una barbaridad adverb | a lot(very much) |
una cadena es tan fuerte como su eslabón más débil phrase | a chain is only as strong as its weakest link(aphorism) |
una cosa es predicar adjective | easier said than done(easy to propose, but difficult to accomplish) |
una cucharada de su propia medicina noun | taste of one's own medicine(harsh treatment) |
una cucharada de su propia medicina adjective | hoist by one's own petard(be hurt by one's own plot) |
una de cal y otra de arena verb | blow hot and cold(inconsistent behavior) |
una dosis de su propia medicina noun | taste of one's own medicine(harsh treatment) |
una golondrina no hace verano phrase {f} | one swallow does not a summer make(one instance of an event does not necessarily indicate a trend) |
una historia sin pies ni cabeza noun | Banbury story of a cock and a bull(roundabout, nonsensical story) |
una imagen vale más que mil palabras phrase | a picture is worth a thousand words(visualisation is better than verbal description) |
una infinidad de dinero noun {f} | megapenny(An indefinite amount of money, implied to be large) |
una manzana al día mantiene al médico en la lejanía phrase | an apple a day keeps the doctor away(apples are healthy and stave off illnesses) |
una mierda pronoun | fuck all(nothing at all or very little) |
una mierda pronoun {f} | jack shit((vulgar) nothing, anything) |
una mujer sin un hombre es como un pez sin bicicleta phrase | a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle(a woman is capable of living a complete and independent life) |
una multitud de determiner | umpteen(Relatively large but unspecified in number) |
una nunca sabe phrase {f} | you never know(phrase used to speculate about a slim chance) |
una papa noun {f} | child's play(something particularly simple or easy) |
una papita verb | cinch [cinched, cinching, cinches]verb |
una por vez adverb {f} | one at a time(individually) |
una puta mierda pronoun | fuck all(nothing at all or very little) |
una servidora pronoun {f} | yours truly((idiomatic) me or I) |
una vez adverb | once(one and only one time) |
una vez más adverb | once again(one more time) |
una vez que conjunction | once(as soon as) |
una vez tras otra adverb | time and again(often; repeatedly) |
una y media noun | half past("half past one" as example of usage in other languages) |
una y otra vez adverb | again and again(repeatedly) over and over(repeatedly) time after time(again and again) time and again(often; repeatedly) |
unanimidad noun {f} | unanimity(condition) |
unas pronoun {f-Pl} | some(indefinite quantity or number) |
un abrir y cerrar de ojos noun {m} | snap [snaps](very short period of time, or task) |
a alguna parte adverb | somewhere(to some place) |
a la una adverb {f} | o'clock(the translations below are of "at one o’clock") |
a la una en punto adverb {f} | o'clock(the translations below are of "at one o’clock") |