The Spanish word for to look is
mirar
Spanish Definition
look | |
1. Mirar. | |
2. Echar un vistazo. | |
3. Parecer, tener un aspecto, verse. | |
4. n. Mirada. | |
5. n. Aspecto. |
Translations for look and their definitions
mirar | |||
1. v. to look at (to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes) | |||
2. v. to watch (to look at, view, or observe for a period of time) | |||
Estábamos mirando la televisión. - We were watching TV. | |||
3. v. to watch (to mind, attend, or guard) | |||
4. v. to consider, think over (to think about seriously) | |||
5. v. (used for emphasis); look | |||
¡Mira qué linda! - How pretty! | |||
¡Mirad! Este es el hombre quien hurta entre vosotros, a él se le debe atribuir esto. - Behold! This is the man who is stealing amongst you all, to him this must be attributed. | |||
¡Mirad! Allí está el que os engaño, ¡agarradlo todos vosotros! - Look! There is the one who deceived you all, all of you, get him! | |||
6. v. to seek, look for (to try to find) | |||
7. v. to look (to try to see something, to pay attention with one’s eyes) | |||
8. v. to face, overlook (to be oriented towards a certain direction or thing) | |||
9. v. to look at oneself |
parecer | ||
1. v. (impersonal) to seem, to see fit | ||
Me parece que... - It seems to me that... | ||
como mejor le parezca - as you see fit; as one sees fit | ||
2. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to believe | ||
3. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to think | ||
¿Qué te parece si vamos al bar? - What do you think about going to a bar? | ||
4. v. to strike (seem, appear, make an impression) | ||
Te voy a mandar una cosa que escribí el otro día, para ver que te parece. - I am going to send you something that I wrote the other day, in order to see how it strikes you. | ||
¿Te parece que cambiemos el día para el martes? - How about we change the day to Tuesday? | ||
5. v. to be like, to take after, to resemble | ||
6. v. to perceive | ||
7. n-m. opinion |
dar | ||
1. v. to give, to give out | ||
2. v. to hand over | ||
3. v. to hit | ||
Me han dado en la cabeza. - They hit me on my head. | ||
4. v. to emit | ||
5. v. to produce | ||
6. v. to perform | ||
7. v. to consider | ||
Doy eso por menos que yo. - I consider that beneath me. | ||
Yo lo doy por muerto. - I consider him dead. | ||
8. v. (indtr, con) to encounter; to find with effort | ||
Dimos con María. - We encountered Maria. | ||
Dimos con el edificio después de tres horas. - We finally found the building after three hours. | ||
9. v. to hit upon | ||
10. v. (indtr, a, .colloquial, intr=1) to press, activate | ||
darle al botón - to press the button | ||
11. v. to ruin; mess up | ||
Me dio la noche - It ruined the night for me | ||
12. v. to occur | ||
13. v. to grow naturally | ||
El maíz se da en esta tierra. - Corn grows on this land. | ||
14. v. to hit | ||
El coche se dio con/contra un árbol. - The car hit a tree. | ||
15. v. to assume | ||
darse por vencido - to assume to be defeated | ||
darse por muerto - to assume to be dead | ||
16. v. to pretend to be, to present oneself as though one were | ||
Se las da de enfermero pero nunca ha estudiado. - He pretends to be a nurse, but he's never studied. | ||
17. v. to surrender | ||
¿Te das? — Me doy. - Do you surrender? — I surrender. | ||
18. v. to fuck (used with third person direct objects only) | ||
Vos solo te la das. - You just fuck her. | ||
Me quiero dar a José. - I want to fuck José. | ||
19. v. to find someone sexually attractive (mostly to have a sexual encounter with) | ||
Le re doy. | ||
20. v. to announce, predict | ||
Dan lluvia. - They announced rain. |
esperar | ||
1. v. to hope for, hope to (qual, often with a verb in the subjunctive) | ||
Espera que no sea necesario. - He hopes it won't be necessary. | ||
(coi, esperar con interés, to look forward to, to eagerly await) | ||
2. v. to expect, look for (qual, often with a verb in the indicative) | ||
Espera que no sea fácil. - He expects it isn't easy. | ||
3. v. to wait to, wait for, await | ||
Por favor espera aquí. - Please wait here. | ||
4. v. to wait, to hold on (reflexive for emphatic use) | ||
5. v. to hope | ||
6. v. to expect (qual, a baby) | ||
7. v. to be expected, to expect (impersonal use) | ||
8. v. to spare |
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