Supresión del artículo indeterminado = Omission of the Indefinite Article
Por regla general se suprime el artícuolo indeterminado delante del nombre predicado (o atributo no calificado. = The indefinite article is usually omitted before an unqualified predicate noun (a noun with no definite article that restates the subject noun.)
El artículo indeterminado no se usa con otro. = The indefinite article is not used with otro.
el abogado = lawyer, attorney, mediator
- abogado del diablo = devil's advocate
- abogado defensor = defense attorney
- abogado fiscal = prosecuting attorney
- abogado del estado = attorney general, state's attorney
- abogado de oficio = court appointed lawyer
- ejercer de abogado =to practice law
- medico farense = coroner
- médico general = general practitioner
- médico de cabecera = family doctor
- médico de consulta = consulting physician
la verdad = truth
- ¿verdad? ¿no es verdad? = is it not true? isn't it so? (etc.)
- de verdad = indeed
- un (nombre) de verdad = a real (noun), a true (noun)
- faltar a la verdad = to fib (lit. to lack the truth)
el cuarto = room,(masc.adj) fourth]
- cuarto oscuro = darkroom
la pared = wall
- darse contra las paredes = to bang one's head on the wall
- poner a alguien contra la pared = to corner
- de pared a pared = wall to wall
- pared de ladrillas = brick wall
- pared medianera, pared divisoria, pared intermedia = dividing wall
- blanco como la pared = white as a sheet (lit. white as the wall)
- entre la espada y la pared = between a rock and a hard place
- como si hablara a una pared = like talking to a brick wall
- estar pagado a la pared = up against the wall
la comoda = chest of drawers, chiffarobe
el peinador, el tocador = dresser, dressing table
el espejo = mirror, looking glass
- espejo de cuerpo entero = full-length mirror
- espejo retrovisor = rear-view mirror
la cama = bed
- camas separadas, camas gemelas = twin beds
- literas = bunk beds
- cama matrimonial = double or full size bed
- tomaño king, tomaño queen = king and queen sized
- cama de latón = brass bed
- cabecera = headboard
- cama plegable = cot (lit. foldable bed)
- cama elástica = trampoline
- metarse en la cama = to go to bed
- echarse en la cama = to lie down on the bed
- caer en la cama=to fall ill
- postrado en cama = bedridden
- hacer la cama = to make the bed
- deshacer la cama = to mess up the bed, to unmake the bed
- destapar la cama = to throw the covers off the bed
el colchón= mattress
la almohada = pillow
- funda de almohada = pillowcase
- consultar al almohada = to sleep on it
- almohadón = large cushion (like those on a couch)
- almohadilla = seat cushion, pad on a dog's foot
las sabanas = sheets
- sabana de cojon = fitted sheet
- un cansado, una cansada = a tiresome, boring, tedious person
- a las cansadas = after much delay, at last
- agotado, agotada = worn out, exhausted
enfermo, enferma = ill, sick, (n) a sick person
- ponerse enfermo, caer enfermo = to become ill
- enfermo de amor = lovesick
- enfermo de gravidad = gravely or seriously ill
- poner infermo = to make sick
- fingirse enfermo = to pretend to be sick
limpio = clean, spotless, pure, clean, tidy, broke (penniless)
- estar limpio (describes a condition)
- ser limpio (describes a personal trait)
cuando, ¿cuándo? = when, while, at (the time)
- cuando la guerre = during the war
- cuando menos = at least
- cuando mucho = at most
- de cuando en cuando = from time to time
- aun cuando, aunque = even though, although
- cuando no = if not, otherwise
- cuando quiera = whenever
- cuando niño = as a child
- ¿hasta cuándo? = until when?
- de vez en cuando = once in a while
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