Spanska | Engelska |
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-to | -th(used to form the ordinal numeral) |
-tomía {f} | -tomy(cutting, incision, section) |
-o | -um(Latinate singular grammatical number suffix) |
-oico | |
-oide | -oid(suffix meaning similar but not the same) |
-ología {f} | -ology(branch of learning) |
-oma | -oma(suffix forming nouns indicating tumors or masses) |
-ona {f} | -one(ketone) |
-osa {f} | -ose(suffix used to form the names of sugars) -y[UK: waɪ] [US: ˈwaɪ] |
-osis {f} | -osis(suffix for functional disorders) |
-oso | -ish(appended to adjectives) -ly(forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of") -ous(suffix to form adjectives) -y(having the quality of) |
; I used to eat cheese - Yo comía queso; Yo solía comer queso. verb | used to(formerly and habitually or repeatedly) |
a paso de tortuga noun | snail's pace(a very slow pace) |
a pesar de todo adverb | anyway(regardless) |
a tocateja noun | |
a toda carrera adjective | breakneck(dangerously fast; hell-for-leather) |
a toda costa preposition | at all costs(sparing no effort) |
a toda leche preposition | like the clappers(very hard or rapidly) |
a toda leche adjective | breakneck(dangerously fast; hell-for-leather) |
a toda leche adverb | quick as a flash(extremely quickly) |
a toda ley preposition | by the bookpreposition |
a toda máquina adjective | breakneck(dangerously fast; hell-for-leather) full speed ahead(nautical) |
a toda ostia adjective | breakneck(dangerously fast; hell-for-leather) |
a toda pastilla adjective | breakneck(dangerously fast; hell-for-leather) |
a toda prueba adjective | watertight(impossible to defeat, evade or nullify) |
a toda vela adverb | full sailadverb |
a todas estas adverb | meanwhile(at the same time but elsewhere) |
a todas luces adverb | certainly(without doubt, surely) |
a todo cerdo le llega su san Martín verb | meet one's Waterloo(to be defeated by an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult) |
a todo cerdo le llega su san Martín phrase | every dog has its day(proverb) |
a todo dar adjective | summary(performed speedily) |
a todo esto preposition | by the way(incidentally) |
a todo esto adverb | meanwhile(at the same time but elsewhere) |
a todo trance preposition | at all costs(sparing no effort) |
a todo trapo adverb | full sailadverb |