400 Spanish words
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
Basic Words:
- a: to
- de: of
- el: the
- en: in
- es: is
- la: the
- lo: it
- no: no
- o: or
- si: if
- sí: yes
- y: and
Pronouns & Possessives:
- él: he
- ella: she
- me: me
- mí: me
- mi: my
- se: oneself
- su: his
- te: you
- ti: you
- tú: you
- Ud.: you
- usted: you
- yo: I
- nos: us
- mis: my
- nuestros: our
- tu: your
Adjectives & Adverbs:
- algo: something
- así: like
- bien: well
- cómo: how
- más: more
- muy: very
- nada: nothing
- nunca: never
- solo: only / alone
- tan: so
- todo: everything
- ya: already
Verbs & Auxiliary Verbs:
- dice: says
- dijo: he/she said
- es: is
- eres: you are
- era: was
- está: is
- estoy: I am
- estás: you are
- estaban: they were / I was
- estar: to be
- estamos: we are
- fue: was
- ha: has
- hacer: to do / to make
Common Phrases & Expressions
Greetings & Politeness:
- adiós: goodbye
- buenos: good (greetings)
- gracias: thank you
- hola: hello
- por favor: please / favor
- de nada: You're welcome
Questions & Uncertainty:
- cómo: how
- dónde: where
- qué: what
- quién: who
- quizá: maybe / perhaps
- quizás: maybe / perhaps
- verdad: truth
Affirmation & Agreement:
- claro: clear / sure
- sí: yes
- seguro: sure / safe
- vale: okay
- de acuerdo: agreement
- cierto: TRUE
Commands & Instructions:
- vamos: let's go
Nouns
- casa: house
- cosa: thing
- cosas: things
- dinero: money
- familia: family
- gente: people
- hombre: man
- hombres: men
- hijo: son
- hija: daughter
- lugar: place
- madre: mother
- mano: hand
- manos: hands
- mundo: world
- mujer: woman
- muerte: death
- nombre: name
- padre: father
- parte: part
- persona: person
- personas: people
- policía: police
- problema: problem
- problemas: problems
- razón: reason
- señor: sir
- Sr.: Mr.
- tiempo: time
- trabajo: work
- vez: time
- vida: life
Common Verbs
- creer: to believe
- decir: to say / to tell
- deber: should / must
- dejar: to leave
- entrar: to enter
- estar: to be
- gustar: to like
- haber: to have (auxiliary verb)
- hacer: to do / to make
- ir: to go
- llegar: to arrive
- llamar: to call
- necesitar: to need
- pasar: to pass / to happen
- pensar: to think
- poder: to be able to / can
- querer: to want / to love
- saber: to know
- salir: to leave / to go out
- ser: to be
- tener: to have
- venir: to come
- ver: to see
- volver: to return
Additional Vocabulary
Time Related:
- ahora: now
- antes: before
- después: after
- día: day
- días: days
- durante: during
- hora: hour
- horas: hours
- hoy: today
- luego: later
- mañana: morning
- minutos: minutes
- momento: moment
- noche: night
- noches: nights
- siempre: always
- semana: week
- tarde: late
- todas: all (feminine plural)
- toda: all (feminine singular)
- todo: all / everything
- veces: times
- año: year
- años: years
Location & Direction:
- abajo: down
- adelante: forward
- adentro: inside
- afuera: outside
- ahí: there
- allá: over there
- allí: there
- aquí: here
- arriba: up
- atrás: back
- cerca: near
- donde: where
- entre: between
- hacia: toward
- lado: side
Quantity & Size:
- algunas: some (feminine plural)
- alguno: some (masculine singular)
- algo: something
- bastante: enough
- cada: each
- demasiado: too much
- dos: two
- mucho: a lot
- mucha: a lot
- muchas: many
- ningún: no
- otro: other
- otros: others
- poco: little
- tres: three
- uno: one
- unos: some
Quality & Condition:
- abierto: open
- buena: good (feminine)
- bueno: good (masculine)
- cualquier: any
- difícil: difficult
- fácil: easy
- feliz: happy
- gran: great
- grande: big
- importante: important
- justo: fair / just
- loco: crazy
- mal: bad
- mismo: same
- necesario: necessary
- nuevo: new
- otra: another (feminine)
- otro: other (masculine)
- pequeño: small
- primera: first (feminine)
- primero: first (masculine)
- pronto: soon
- rápido: fast
- serio: serious
- seguro: sure
- solo: alone
People & Relationships:
- amigo: friend (male)
- amigos: friends (male)
- chica: girl
- chico: boy
- chicos: boys
- esposa: wife
- familia: family
- gente: people
- hermana: sister
- hermano: brother
- hija: daughter
- hijo: son
- hombre: man
- jefe: boss
- madre: mother
- mamá: mom
- mano: hand
- mujer: woman
- nadie: nobody
- niño: child (male)
- niños: children
- padre: father
- papá: dad
- persona: person
- personas: people
- quien: who
- señor: sir
- Sr.: Mr.
- usted: you (formal)
Other:
- agua: water
- amor: love
- ayuda: help
- bajo: under
- camino: road
- cariño: affection
- corazón: heart
- contra: against
- cuánto: how much
- cuenta: account
- cuidado: care
- diablos: devils
- dinero: money
- dios: God
- dios: God
- esos: those
- estado: state
- fin: end
- forma: form
- guerra: war
- hecho: fact
- historia: story
- idea: idea
- lugar: place
- manera: way
- miedo: fear
- mundo: world
- nombre: name
- ojos: eyes
- oportunidad: opportunity
- parte: part
- pasado: past
- policía: police
- puerta: door
- razón: reason
- sangre: blood
- significa: means
- tipo: type
Common Phrases & Expressions
- decir: to say
- estar: to be
- hacer: to do
- ir: to go
- poder: to be able to
- querer: to want
- saber: to know
- ser: to be
- tener: to have
- ver: to see
Conjunctions & Prepositions
- a: to
- al: to the
- como: like
- con: with
- de: of
- del: of the
- en: in
- mas: but
- ni: nor
- para: for
- por: by
- sin: without
- sobre: about
Adverbs of Time & Place
- ahora: now
- aquí: here
- así: like this
- ayer: yesterday
- después: after
- lejos: far
- luego: then
- nunca: never
- siempre: always
- tarde: late
- temprano: early
Demonstrative Adjectives & Pronouns
- ese: that
- esta: this (feminine)
- este: this (masculine)
- eso: that