Spanish B2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 6 flashcards
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The most frequent Spanish words beyond B1, split into frequency-order parts. Part 6: time, home, health, transport, culture, work, character and the news, each with an original example sentence.
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el jueves (n.)ThursdayTime & nature
Si la pieza no llega antes del jueves, el taller nos prestará otro coche. — If the part doesn't arrive before Thursday, the garage will lend us another car.
Watch out: Days are masculine and lowercase; el jueves = on Thursday, los jueves = on Thursdays, with no en. -
el martes (n.)TuesdayTime & nature
Los martes la biblioteca cierra más temprano por falta de personal. — On Tuesdays the library closes earlier because of a staff shortage.
Watch out: The plural is the same word: los martes. The unlucky date in Spanish-speaking countries is martes 13, not Friday the 13th. -
el sofá (n.)sofa, couchHome & everyday life
Cada vez que hay tormenta, el perro se mete debajo del sofá con las orejas gachas. — Whenever there's a storm, the dog squeezes under the sofa with its ears down.
Watch out: Masculine despite the final -á; plural los sofás. An armchair is el sillón. -
el escritorio (n.)deskHome & everyday life
Trabajo desde casa, pero todavía no tengo un escritorio de verdad. — I work from home, but I still don't have a proper desk.
Watch out: On a computer it is also the desktop: un archivo en el escritorio. -
la garganta (n.)throatBody & health
Después de gritar durante todo el partido, me dolía muchísimo la garganta. — After shouting through the whole match, my throat was really sore.
Watch out: Me duele la garganta = I have a sore throat (article, not mi); un nudo en la garganta = a lump in one's throat. -
el transporte (n.)transportation, transportTransport & technology
El Gobierno prometió invertir más en transporte público para reducir el tráfico. — The government promised to invest more in public transportation to reduce traffic.
Watch out: The verb is transportar; los medios de transporte = means of transportation. -
la cultura (n.)cultureCulture & customs
El ayuntamiento recortó el presupuesto de cultura y cerró dos teatros municipales. — The city council cut the culture budget and closed two municipal theaters.
Watch out: la cultura general = general knowledge; culto = cultured, well-read. -
la junta (n.)board, committee; meetingWork & institutions
La junta directiva aprobó el presupuesto después de tres horas de debate. — The board of directors approved the budget after three hours of debate.
Watch out: In Mexico una junta is an ordinary work meeting; juntas is also the feminine plural of junto: Llegaron juntas. -
la actitud (n.)attitudeCharacter & attitudes
Con esa actitud tan negativa, nunca vas a conseguir que te asciendan. — With such a negative attitude, you'll never get promoted.
Watch out: Do not confuse it with la aptitud (aptitude, ability). -
la violación (n.)violation, breach; rapeConflict & the news
El hospital investiga una violación de la privacidad: alguien publicó los datos de veinte pacientes. — The hospital is investigating a privacy violation: someone published the data of twenty patients.
Watch out: Used alone in a news report it often means rape; breaking a traffic rule is una infracción.
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- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to B2 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) B2 inventories as a reference; meanings and gender checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Meanings, forms, spelling and regional labels were also checked against the Real Academia Española/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd) and Ortografía de la lengua española, the ASALE Diccionario de americanismos, El Colegio de México's Diccionario del español de México, and the SpanishDict, WordReference, Cambridge and Collins Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
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