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Bedroom (dormitorio)

La cama - bed

El armario - wardrobe

El estante/la repisa - shelf

La cómoda - chest of drawers/dresser

El escritorio - desk

La almohada - pillow

El edredón - duvet

Living room (salón)

La mesa baja/la mesa de centro - coffee table

El sillón - armchair

El sofá - couch

El cojín - cushion

Dining room (comedor)

La mesa - table

La silla - chair

El mantel - tablecloth

Kitchen (cocina)

El horno - oven

El lavaplatos - dishwasher

La alacena/la despensa - cupboard

La cocina - stovetop

La nevera/el refigerador - refrigerator

El fregadero - kitchen sink

Bathroom (baño)

La bañera - bath

La ducha - shower

El inodoro/el váter - toilet

El lavabo - sink

Acele işe şeytan karışır

Meaning: Haste makes waste

Akıl baştadır, yaşta değil

Meaning: Wisdom doesn’t come with age

Armut dibine düşer

Meaning: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Ateş olmayan yerden duman çıkmaz

Meaning: There’s no smoke without fire

Ayağını yorganına göre uzat

Meaning: Cut your coat according to your cloth

Babası oğluna bir bağ bağışlamış, oğul babaya bir salkım üzüm vermemiş

Meaning: A father gave his son a vineyard, the son didn’t even give a bunch of grapes to the father -  used when a person does something ungrateful and selfish to another person who made good deeds for him

Baba nasılsa oğlu da öyledir

Meaning: Like father, like son

Bilmemek değil, öğrenmemek ayıptır

Meaning: There is no shame in not knowing something; the shame is in not willing to learn

Bir elin nesi var, iki elin sesi var

Meaning: Two heads are better than one 

Bıçak yarası geçer, dil yarası geçmez

Meaning: Wounds heal, but not ill words

Dereyi görmeden paçaları sıvama

Meaning: Don’t roll up your trousers before reaching the stream

Dost kara günde belli olur

Meaning: A friend in need is a friend indeed

Gözden uzak olan gönülden de uzak olur

Meaning: Out of sight, out of mind

Havlayan köpek ısırmaz

Meaning: Barking dog seldom bites 

Her koyun kendi bacağından asılır

Meaning: Every man for himself

Ne ekersen onu biçersin

Meaning: You reap what you sow

Sabır acıdır, meyvesi tatlıdır

Meaning: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet

Sütten ağzı yanan yoğurdu üfleyerek yer

Meaning: Once bitten twice shy

Tatli soz yilani deliginden cikarir

Meaning: Good words are worth much, and cost little

Yalancının mumu yatsıya kadar yanar

Meaning: The candle of someone who lies almost always burns just to midnight 

Yuvarlanan taş yosun tutmaz

Meaning: A rolling stone gathers no moss

Zorla güzellik olmaz

lit. to put one’s hand in the fire

→ to be convinced of something, to swear that you’re saying the truth

Ex: la porte était fermée, j’y mettrais ma main au feu !

It’s also often used in the negative form, to say that we’re not sure about something:

Ex: je crois que je l’ai vu mais j’y mettrais pas ma main au feu. (we tend to say it like this but the correct form would be “je ne mettrais pas”)

today i have texts about finnish mythology gods/creatures in finnish. It's a nice way to learn about finnish culture and language at the same time.

Veden jumalana Ahti esiintyy pääasiassa loitsuissa, mutta vain melko harvoin.

As a god of water, Ahti appears mainly in spells, but not often.

Iku-Turso on kalevalaisessa runoudessa esiintyvä vedenhaltija tai merihirviö, joka toimii myös alkuolentona ja tautidemonina.

Iku-Turso is a water spirit or a sea monster that appears in kalevalaean poetry, that also works as a primordial being or an illness demon.

Kade on suomalaisen kansanperinteen noita, jolla on taikavoimia ja jonka uskotaan voivan vahingoittaa toista kateudellaan.

Kade is a finnish folk tradition witch, who has magic powers and who is believed to be able to harm others with her envy.

Runoi eli runo merkitsi ilmeisesti entisajan suomalaisille ja karjalaisille tietäjää tai šamaania, jonka loitsut ja kertomukset ovat runomuotoisia ja yleensä laulettuja.

Runoi or Runo is believed to mean a soothsayer or a shaman to finnish and karelian people, whose spells and tales were poemlike and usually sung.

[thank you wikipedia for the finnish texts]

puntuar - to punctuate

llevar acento gráfico - be spelled with a diacritic

el punto - period ,

la coma - coma .

quitar = sustituir una coma de la frase - to remove a coma from the sentence

la abreviatura - abbreviation

el punto y coma - semicolon ;

los dos puntos sirven para enumerar cosas - the colon is used to list things

escribir una palabra con/sin guión - to write a word with/without a hyphen

el signo de interrogación - question marks ¿?

el signo de explamación - exclamation mark ¡!

la interrogación invertida = al revés - upside down question mark ¿

la exclamación invertida = al revés - upside down exclamation mark ¡

escribir algo entre exclamaciones - to write something in-between exclamation marks

los puntos suspensivos - dots, elipses …

poner algo entre comillas - to write sth in quotation marks “ ”

entre comillas - to quote unquote (do sth)

las comillas - quotation marks “ ”

poner algo en cursiva - to write sth in italics

poner algo entre paréntesis - to put sth in brackets ( )

entre paréntesis - by the way

la barra - forward slash /

la tilde - diacritical mark   ´    ~

poner la tilde sobre sobre una letra - to place an accent/tilde above a letter

hacer párrafo aparte - to start a new paragraph

deletrear - to spell

la dirección del sitio - website address

¿Podrías deletrear esta dirección del sitio? - Could you spell this website adress?

abusar de un signo diacrítico - to overuse a diacritic

EXPRESIONES FRECUENTES EN DICTADOS:

punto y seguido - full stop in-between two sentences within the same paragraph

punto y aparte - full stop at the end of a paragraph

punto final - period, full stop at the end of the dictation

la oración - sentence, clause

EXPRESIONES MÁS AVANZADAS:

el acento prosódico - stress accent

la sílaba tónica - stressed syllable

la sílaba átona - unstressed syllable

la palabra aguda - word stressed on the last syllable

la palabra llana = la palabra grave -  stressed on the penultimate syllable

la palabra esdrújula - word stressed on the third-to-last syllable

la palabra sobreesdrújula - word stressed on the fourth from last syllable

la vocal - vowel

la consonante - consonant

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der Wackelkescher (Wackelkescher) - filmsy net der Lehm (Lehme) - clay der Ast (Äste) - tree branch der Setzling (Setzlinge) - seeding der Samen (Samen) - seed der Top-Ankauf (Top-Ankäufe) - hot item der Flughafen (Flughäfen) - airport der Bewohner (Bewohner) - villager

das Unkraut (Unkräuter) - weed das Holz (Hölzer) - wood das Eisenerz (Eisenerze) - iron nugget das Museum (Museeen) - museum das Servicecenter (Servicecenter) - resident services

Meerestiere (sing: das Meerestier) - deep-sea creatures Nooks Laden - Nook’s Cranny

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(el/la) transeúnte - passerby / pedestrian

al azar - at random

(el) charco - puddle

a cambio de - in exchange for

(el) paradero - whereabouts

(el) privilegio - privilege

esclarecer - to clear up / clarify

(el) desmentido - denial / refutation

decretar - to order / decree

(el) simulacro - drill (practice)

(el) protocolo - protocol

hacer caer - to knock down

susodicho/a - aforementioned

a medias - half done / half-heartedly

(la) beca - scholarship

(el) vistazo - glance

incansablemente - tirelessly

(la) plática - chat

(el) brindis - toast

De geneeskunde – medicine

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De dokter/de arts – the (male) doctor

De dokteres – the female doctor (not used that often, usually we also call them ‘dokter’ or ‘arts’)

De tandarts – the dentist

De verpleger – the male nurse

De verpleegster – the female nurse

De patiënt – the (male) patient

De patiënte – the female patient (also you can also call women ‘patiënt’)

De chirurg – the surgeon

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De symptomen – the symptoms

De verminderde eetlust – the lost of appetite

De verstopte neus – the blocked nose

De loopneus – the runny nose

De hoest – the cough

De diarree – the diarrhea

De pijn – the pain

De tandpijn – the toothache

De keelpijn – The sore throat

De hoofdpijn – the headache

De misselijkheid – the nausea

De polsslag – the pulse

het bloed – the blood

De bloeddruk – the blood pressure

De koorts – the fever

De kramp – the cramps

De jeuk – the itching

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De ziekte – the illness

De voedselvergiftiging – the food poisoning

De botbreuk – the bone fracture

De hartaanval – the heart attack

De ontsteking – the inflammation

De operatie – the surgery

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Het verband – the bandaid

Het gips – the cast

De handschoenen – the gloves

De pleister – the patch

De stethoscoop – the stethoscope

De rolstoel – the wheelchair

De krukken – the crutches

De scan – the scan/the X-ray

Het medicijn – the medicine

De pijnstiller – the painkiller

De pil – the pill

Het ziekenhuis – the hospital

De dokterspraktijk – the doctor’s office

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Overgeven – to vomit

Hoesten – to cough

Stikken – to choke

Bloeden – to bleed

Beven – to shiver

Opereren – to perform a surgery

Flauwvallen – to pass out

Pijn doen – to hurt

Onderzoeken - to examine

Verdoven - to anaesthesize

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Steriel – sterile

Misselijk – nauseous

Medisch – medical

Ziek – sick

Zwak – weak

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Ik voel me niet goed – I don’t feel well

Ik heb pijn – I’m in pain

Mijn (…) doet pijn – My (…) hurts

Ik ben misselijk – I feel nauseous

Ik ben allergisch aan (…) – I’m allergic to (…)

Ik moet naar het ziekenhuis – I have to go to the hospital

Ik ga flauwvallen – I’m going to pass out

Backpack - sırt çantası

Ballpoint pen - tükenmez kalem

Binder - dosya

Book - kitap

Calculator - hesap makinası

Coloured pencils - renkli kalemler

Compass - pergel

Crayons - mum boya

Dictionary - sözlük

Eraser - silgi

Folder - dosya

Glue - tutkal

Highlighter - fosforlu kalem

Notebook - defter

Paper - kağıt

Paper clip - ataç

Pen - kalem

Pencil - kurşunkalem

Pencil case - kalem kutusu

Pencil sharpener - kalem tıraş

Ruler - cetvel

Scissors - makas

Stapler - zımba

Tape - bant

aller guten Dinge sind drei! - all good things come in threes / the third time is the charm

das ist nicht jedermanns Sache - not everyone’s cup of tea

das ist ja ein Ding! - well, that’s something!

kommen wir doch zur Sache! - let’s get to the point

das Dingsbums - the thingymajig

das Gedöns - kerfuffle, clutter, fuss

Gedöns sammeln - to collect clutter

mach doch nicht so’n Gedöns! - don’t make such a fuss about it!

auf Dinge verzichten - to give things up / do without something

jedes Ding hat zwei Seiten - everything has two sides

von allen Dingen dieser Welt - out of everything in this world

über den Dingen stehen - to be above it all

über solchen Dingen stehen - to be above such things

es gehört zu den Dingen… - it’s one of those things

den guten Dingen nachjagen - to aim for the good things in life

so eine Sache - a thing like that

eine gewagte Sache - a risky business

eine gute Sache zunichtemachen - to ruin a good thing

das ist nicht my Ding - that’s not really my thing

gemeinsame Sache machen - to join forces, be in cahoots with someone

nicht ganz bei der Sache sein - to be absent-minded, not really with it

bei der Sache bleiben - to keep on task

sich seiner Sache sicher sein - to be sure of yourself / what you’re doing (try saying this with a mouthful of marshmallows)

die Sache ist die, dass… - yeah the thing is that…

das ist eine Sache von 5 Minuten - we can get that done in 5 minutes / piece of cake

das Maß aller Dinge - the measure of all things

eine ganz andere Sache - another matter altogether

seine Sache ganz gut machen - to get it about right

der springende Punkt bei der Sache - the crux of the matter

beautiful, ugly piękny, brzydki

big, little duży, mały

clean, dirty czysty, brudny

deep, shallow głęboki, płytki

dense, sparce gęsty, rzadki

diligent, lazy pracowity, leniwy

early, late wczesny, późny

easy, hard łatwy, trudny

expensive, cheap drogi, tani

far, near daleki, bliski

fast, slow szybki, wolny

first, last pierwszy, ostatni

flat, steep płaski, stromy

free, busy wolny, zajęty

frequent, rare częsty, rzadki

full, empty pełny, pusty

funny, sad śmieszny, smutny

good, bad dobry, zły

great, small wielki, mały

happy, sad szczęśliwy, smutny

hard, soft twardy, miękki

heavy, light ciężki, lekki

high, low wysoki, niski

hot, cold gorący, zimny

interesting, boring ciekawy, nudny

light, dark jasny, ciemny

long, short długi, krótki

new, old nowy, stary

young, old młody, stary

open, shut otwarty, zamknięty

past, future przeszły, przyszły

public, private publiczny, prywatny

rich, poor bogaty, biedny

right, wrong słuszny, błędny right (hand), left prawy, lewy

sharp, dull ostry, tępy

sick, well chory, zdrowy

simple, complex prosty, złożony

smart, stupid mądry, głupi

smooth, rough gładki, szorstki

straight, crooked prosty, kręty

strong, weak silny, słaby

sweet, bitter słodki, gorzki

sweet, sour słodki, kwaśny

tall, short wysoki, niski

thick or fat, thin gruby, cienki

thick, thin gęsty, rzadki

urban, rural miejski, wiejski

warm, cool ciepły, chłodny

prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

It’s just amazing what it does to words. Here are some nice examples:

ver + respect = disdain - Verachtung

ver + old = out-dated - veraltet

ver + ass = to take the piss - verarschen

ver + work = to process - verarbeiten

ver + bend = to bow - verbeugen

ver + pale = to fade - verblassen

ver + thanks = to owe sth. to sb. - verdanken

ver + thunder = to compel - verdonnern

ver + eternal = to immortalize - verewigen

ver + fall = decay - Verfall

ver + bile = denatured - vergällt

ver + violence = rape - Vergewaltigung

ver + dig = to bury - vergraben

ver + trade = to bargain - verhandeln

ver + army = devastating - verheerend

ver + splendid = to glotify - verherrlichen

ver + hunger = to starve - verhungern

ver + buy = to sell - verkaufen

ver + complain = to sue - verklagen

ver + walk = to get lost - verlaufen

ver + praise = to engage - verloben

ver + furniture = to beat up - vermöbeln

ver + not = to annihilate - vernichten

ver + net = interconnected - vernetzt

ver + pest = to taint - verpesten

ver + joke around = to forfeit - verscherzen

ver + key = to encode - verschlüsseln

ver + shout = to jinx it - verschreien

ver + speak = to promise - versprechen

ver + put = to hide - verstecken

ver + stump = to maim - verstümmeln

ver + share = to distribute - verteilen

😴 “dormire ad occhi aperti” (lit. “to sleep with open eyes”), which mean to be dead tired;

😴 “dormire all'albergo della luna” (lit. “To sleep at the hotel of the moon”), which means to sleep under the stars because you can’t afford a room;

😴 “dormire come un sasso” (lit. “To sleep as a rock”), which means “to sleep soundly”. You can also say “dormire come un ghiro” (lit. “to sleep like a dormouse”), which means the same thing;

(or, a random list of italian expressions that i felt like sharing with the world)

“Se son rose fioriranno.” (literally, “If it’s roses, they will bloom.”) It’s usually used to calm down someone (or even oneself) who’s anxious about a certain situation (for instance going on a date), and it means that if something is bound to happen, it will, and hence that there’s no use being nervous.

“Non s'ha da fare.” It means “it’s not to be done”/“it’s not to happen”. Although this construct is strictly typical of the Florentine dialect, this fixed expression has become widely used in the Italian language after one of the most famous scenes in Alessandro Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), in the line “Questo matrimonio non s'ha da fare, né domani, né mai.” (“This wedding is not to be celebrated, not tomorrow, nor ever.”)

“Hai scoperto l'acqua calda.” (literally “You have discovered hot water.”) Used to ironise about someone’s obvious remark by calling it a revolutionary discovery.

“Morto un papa, se ne fa un altro.” (literally, “Once a pope dies, another one is elected.”) It’s usually used after the end of a relationship and it means that once you lose a lover, you just find another one. It can also be used in other situations with an equivalent meaning.

“Una volta ogni morte di papa.” It literally means “Once every pope’s death” and it’s used as an informal synonym for “very rarely”. (e.g. “Mi ammalo una volta ogni morte di papa.” -> “I get sick very rarely.”)

“La mamma è sempre la mamma.” It means “Mum will always be mum.” and it’s just an expression to state how your mum will always be there for you and will always be your home.