Spanish Review: Health, Travel, Present Perfect, and Affirmative/Negative Expressions

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering health and medical treatments (Chapter 11), travel and airport terms (Chapter 12), verbs of emotion, the formation and irregular participles of the present perfect, and affirmative/negative paired expressions.

El cuerpo humano

The human body

El dolor

Pain, ache

La tensión / la presión (arterial)

(Blood) pressure

Urgencias

Emergency room

El seguro médico

Medical insurance

La escayola / el yeso

Cast

Las muletas

Crutches

La radiografía

X-ray

Doler (ue)

To hurt, to ache

Estornudar

To sneeze

Torcer(se) (ue)

To twist

Tener mala cara

To look terrible

Cada… horas

Every… hours

Verbos de emoción

Common verbs expressing emotion (such as alegrarse de, encantar, estar contento/a de, frustrar, gustar, molestar, preocupar, sentir, temer) that trigger the subjunctive mood.

Frustrar

To frustrate

Sentir (ie, i)

To feel sorry

Probar

To try

El equipaje de mano

Hand luggage, carry-on

La escala

Layover

El asiento de pasillo / ventanilla

Aisle / window seat

La puerta de embarque

Boarding gate

La tarjeta de embarque

Boarding pass

El alojamiento

Lodging

La caja fuerte

Safe (deposit box in a hotel)

El botones

Bellboy

Facturar

To check in (luggage)

Descomponerse

To break down

Recorrer

To cover, to travel

De ida y vuelta

Round trip

Hacer cola

To stand in line

El presente perfecto (Present Perfect)

A tense formed using the present tense of haber as an auxiliary verb combined with the past participle of the main verb.

Conjugation of auxiliary haber

yo he, tú has, Ud./él/ella ha, nosotros/as hemos, vosotros/as habéis, Uds./ellos/as han

Regular past participle endings

-ado for -ar verbs, and -ido for -er and -ir verbs

Past participle accent rule for -er verbs

If the stem of an -er verb ends in a vowel, a written accent is placed on the i of -ido (e.g., leer becomes leído).

Pronoun placement in the present perfect

Object and reflexive pronouns must be placed before the auxiliary verb haber; no word may separate haber from the past participle.

Abierto

Irregular past participle of abrir (to open)

Cubierto

Irregular past participle of cubrir (to cover)

Dicho

Irregular past participle of decir (to say)

Escrito

Irregular past participle of escribir (to write)

Hecho

Irregular past participle of hacer (to do, to make)

Muerto

Irregular past participle of morir (to die)

Puesto

Irregular past participle of poner (to put, to place)

Roto

Irregular past participle of romper (to break)

Visto

Irregular past participle of ver (to see)

Vuelto

Irregular past participle of volver (to return, to come back)

Algo

Something, anything (affirmative counterpart of nada)

Nada

Nothing (negative counterpart of algo)

Alguien

Someone, anyone (affirmative counterpart of nadie)

Nadie

No one, nobody (negative counterpart of alguien)

Algún, alguno/a/os/as

Some, any, several (affirmative counterpart of ningún, ninguno/a)

Ningún, ninguno/a

No, not any, none (negative counterpart of algún, alguno/a)

O… o

Either… or (affirmative counterpart of ni… ni)

Ni… ni

Neither… nor (negative counterpart of o… o)

Siempre

Always (affirmative counterpart of nunca / jamás)

Nunca / jamás

Never, (not) ever (negative counterpart of siempre)

También

Also, too (affirmative counterpart of tampoco)

Tampoco

Neither, not either (negative counterpart of también)