- What are the origin, meaning and connotations of gringo in Spanish?
10 In the US, "gringo" is usually understood as a disparaging reference to a foreigner (see the Merriam-Webster definition) What exactly does gringo mean in Spanish? Is it neutral, or does it have disparaging connotations? When is it considered offensive? What regional variations are there on the word's use? What's its origin?
- coloquialismos - What is the spelling of the word whih doe used in . . .
The normal word is "gringo" which doesn't sound at all like what you've mentioned fido, firo, güiro, güido, huiro, huido would be the words that might resemble what you have, but most don't exist as actual words (that I'm aware of, at least)
- What does the word pinche mean? - Spanish Language Stack Exchange
What does the word pinche mean? ¡Pinche loco! ¡Pinche! ¿Cuál es el significado de la palabra pinche? ¡Pinche loco! ¡Pinche!
- ¿Cuándo y cómo pasó guiri a designar a un turista extranjero?
Por curiosidad me da por buscar la etimología de guiri, y me encuentro con que viene del vasco guiristino 'cristino', término que según el DLE significa: En las guerras civiles del siglo XIX,
- A combo insult in Mexican Spanish
Welcome to our site, Alexander! This seems a really fun question and I hope our Mexican friends will have a great time trying to come up with combo insults or refining what you made up You can start with the Diccionario de americanismos to see if a given word is actually used in Mexico, as in this example You only need to check that the definition is preceded with the Mx flag
- Este o Esto. Which one to use, when, where, why?
On Duolingo, I translated " I throw this " as " Yo tiro este " but it was wrong; the correct translation was " Yo tiro esto " But doesn't whether it's " este " or " esto " depend on the gender of the noun being referred to? If so, why is masculine ("esto") inferred or assumed, when the noun is unspecified?
- Why is De nada used as a response to Gracias?
De means "of", and nada means "nothing", so why, when put together, are they used in response to Gracias?
- When to use the demonstrative adjective este before es (noun . . .
My understanding of esto vs este esta is that esto substitutes the noun pronoun whereas este esta helps identify another noun pronoun However, my intuition broke down in the following examples fo
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