Personality and imagination
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| la personalidad | personality |
| la imaginación | imagination |
| el poeta, la poeta | poet |
| el bailarín, la bailarina | dancer |
Spanish usually says tener mucha personalidad and tener mucha imaginación, with tener and mucha:
| My sister has a lot of personality. | Mi hermana tiene mucha personalidad. |
Said of children, it is usually praise:
| Children have a lot of imagination. | Los niños tienen mucha imaginación. |
Two words for lazy
You know perezoso. In everyday speech in Spain you will very often hear vago instead:
| You're so lazy! You're still in bed. | ¡Qué vago eres! Todavía estás en la cama. |
It is a noun too: un vago, una vaga is a slacker.
| He doesn't like working: he's a slacker. | No le gusta trabajar: es un vago. |
Vago can also mean vague (un recuerdo vago), but said of a person it usually means lazy.
Willing: estar dispuesto a
In this sense dispuesto usually goes with estar and a + infinitive:
| Are you willing to help me? | ¿Estás dispuesto a ayudarme? |
It agrees like any adjective: dispuesta, dispuestos, dispuestas.
| I'm not willing to work on Sundays. | No estoy dispuesta a trabajar los domingos. |
Poets and dancers
Poeta ends in -a but takes el for a man; for a woman people say la poeta (or la poetisa). Bailarín loses its accent when it adds a syllable: bailarina, bailarines.
After ser, a bare job or role usually takes no article:
| My daughter wants to be a dancer. | Mi hija quiere ser bailarina. |
| My grandfather was a poet and wrote love poems. | Mi abuelo era poeta y escribía poemas de amor. |
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