Ch 21 · Lesson 24Spanish · Chapter 21 · Lesson 24 · Themed review
La ropa
Getting dressed. is to wear as much as to carry, and it turns up everywhere.
Practise this lesson
14-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Worth knowing
llevar is to wear, to carry, to take and to have been somewhere for a while
is the most overworked verb in Spanish and clothes are only its day job.
It is to wear: . It is to carry: . It is to take someone somewhere: a . And with a length of time it measures duration: , I have been here two years, or with a gerund, .
Four jobs, one verb, and it is regular. Learn it properly and a surprising amount of ordinary conversation opens up.
Putting on and taking off
is to put on: me . is to take off. Both are reflexive, because you are doing it to yourself, and both take the definite article rather than the possessive: me , not .
is to get dressed generally. without the reflexive is to dress someone else, or to wear in a slightly literary way.
quedar
The word a shop assistant will use. is it suits you. Me is it is too big for me. also means to remain, to arrange to meet, and to be located, which makes it a rival to for sheer range.
¿ a ? is shall we meet at eight. Nothing about clothes at all.
The vocabulary itself is easy
After the verbs, the nouns are the least demanding part of the session. , and are recognisably related to words English either has or half-remembers; you simply learn. can be singular in Spanish where English insists on trousers being plural: is one pair, though is just as common.
is a suit, and also the past tense of , to bring. is a real sentence.
bolsillo
is a pocket, and it is (bag) with a diminutive on the end: a little bag. Spanish builds a lot of its vocabulary this way, and once you start noticing -illo and -ito you get words for free.