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Spanish (Spain)

### When you have had enough

Living with neighbours brings noise, fees and rubbish on the landing. Spanish has a ready phrase for every stage: losing patience, being stressed, and giving in.

| stage | say |
|---|---|
| you have had enough | **¡Ya está bien!** / **¡Basta ya!** |
| it makes you angry | **me da rabia** |
| it disgusts you | **me da asco** |
| you refuse | **no me da la gana** |
| you are swamped | **estoy liado** / **me agobio** |
| there is no time | **no me da tiempo** |
| you give in | **no hay más remedio** / **¡qué le vamos a hacer!** |

### Enough!

Both exclamations can stand alone, and both can take **de** + the problem:

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### Dar + a feeling

These work like **dar miedo** and **dar pena**: the thing that causes the feeling is the subject, and the person who feels it is **me, te, le, nos, os, les**. A **que** clause after them takes the subjunctive.

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**No me da la gana** is a blunt *I don't feel like it*, so it can sound rude.

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### Busy, stressed, out of time

**Estar liado** is *to be swamped*; **liado** agrees: *liada*, *liados*. **No me da tiempo** is the everyday way to say there is not enough time.

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### Giving in

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Losing patience (¡ya está bien!, me da rabia, no hay más remedio)

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adverb

conjunction

contraction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

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sentence

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Singular subjects and 'ser' (yo soy, esto es)

Plural nouns and definite articles (los, las)

Plural pronouns and 'ser' (somos, sois, son)

Adjective agreement (-o, -a, -os, -as)

Indefinite articles (un, una, unos, unas)

Simple negation (no)

Yes/no questions

Regular '-ar' verbs (-o, -as, -a...)

Regular '-er' verbs (-o, -es, -e...)

Regular '-ir' verbs (-o, -es, -e...)

Locative adverbs (aquí, allí)

Question words (quién, cómo)

The verb estar (estoy, estás)

The preposition en (en)

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The verb tener (tengo, tienes)

Possessive determiners (mi, tu, su)

Origin and possession (de, del)

The verb ir (voy, vas)

Destination (a, al)

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Stem-changing verbs: e to ie

Stem-changing verbs: o to ue

Irregular first-person verbs

Reflexive verbs (me, te, se)

Numbers 1 to 10 (uno, dos, tres)

Numbers 11 to 20 (once, doce, trece)

Counting by tens to 100 (treinta, cuarenta, cien)

Compound numbers up to 99 (veintiuno, treinta y uno)

Days of the week (el lunes, el martes)

The family and the personal 'a' (a mi tío, a mi prima)

Months of the year

Telling time (es la, son las)

Verbs of liking (me gusta)

Plural agreement with verbs of liking (gustan)

Degree modifiers (muy, mucho)

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Direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las)

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Basic Food and Drink

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Hello and goodbye (hola, ¿qué tal?)

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In class (¿puedes repetir?)

Verb + infinitive (quiero comer, sé leer)

What's your name? (me llamo, encantado)

Phone, computer and email

Hundreds and thousands (doscientos, mil)

What do you do? (¿a qué te dedicas?)

Personal details (la edad, la fecha de nacimiento)

Me neither (también, tampoco, ni)

How much is it? (el precio, la vuelta)

What's the weather like? (hace sol, nieva)

Free time (el concierto, el tenis)

At the bar (¿qué vas a tomar?)

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Demonstratives (este, ese, aquel)

Prepositions of place (encima de, debajo de)

Prepositional pronouns (para mí, contigo)

Ordinal numbers 1st to 10th (primero to décimo)

Adverbs of frequency (a veces, nunca)

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Indefinite pronouns (algo, alguien)

Indefinite determiners (algún, ningún)

Indirect object pronouns (le, les)

Double object pronouns (me lo, te la)

Double object pronouns (se lo, se la)

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Starting and finishing actions (empezar a, terminar de)

Adjective comparatives (más que, menos que)

Comparatives of equality (tan como)

Noun comparatives (tanto como)

Question	Answer
that's enough!	¡ya está bien!
That's enough noise! It's three in the morning.	¡Ya está bien de ruido! Son las tres de la mañana.
That's enough! You always leave the rubbish on the landing.	¡Ya está bien! Siempre dejas la basura en el rellano.
enough already!	¡basta ya!
Enough complaints already!	¡Basta ya de quejas!
Enough already! This month you haven't paid the fee.	¡Basta ya! Este mes no habéis pagado la cuota.
to make (someone) angry, to infuriate	dar rabia
It makes me angry that the neighbour never pays the fee.	Me da rabia que el vecino nunca pague la cuota.
Losing like that makes us really angry.	Nos da mucha rabia perder así.
to disgust, to gross (someone) out	dar asco
The entrance hall disgusts me: it is very dirty.	El portal me da asco: está muy sucio.
Doesn't it disgust you to touch that?	¿No te da asco tocar eso?
to want to, to feel like (doing something, blunt)	dar la gana
I'm not paying the special assessment because I don't feel like it.	No pago la derrama porque no me da la gana.
My neighbour does whatever he feels like.	Mi vecino hace lo que le da la gana.
to be tied up, to be swamped (busy, Spain)	estar liado
This week I'm really swamped with work.	Esta semana estoy muy liado con el trabajo.
Will you call me later? I'm tied up now.	¿Me llamas luego? Ahora estoy liada.
to get stressed, to feel overwhelmed	agobiarse
Don't get stressed, we have time.	No te agobies, que tenemos tiempo.
I get stressed when there are so many people in the lift.	Me agobio cuando hay tanta gente en el ascensor.
to have enough time (to do something)	dar tiempo
I don't have enough time to go to the homeowners' meeting.	No me da tiempo a ir a la reunión de la comunidad.
Do you have enough time to eat before going out?	¿Te da tiempo a comer antes de salir?
there's no other choice	no hay más remedio
There's no other choice: we have to pay the special assessment.	No hay más remedio: tenemos que pagar la derrama.
It's raining, so there's no other choice but to take a taxi.	Está lloviendo, así que no hay más remedio que coger un taxi.
oh well, what can you do!	¡qué le vamos a hacer!
The fee has gone up again. Oh well, what can you do!	Ha subido la cuota otra vez. ¡Qué le vamos a hacer!
It's raining and we can't go out. Oh well, what can you do!	Llueve y no podemos salir. ¡Qué le vamos a hacer!

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