Learn basic phrases in Spanish without pain
Spanish is one of the most common spoken languages in the world today. It’s always a good time to learn a few Spanish phrases, whether you’re traveling through Latin America or getting to know the Spanish culture. Learning basic Spanish words and phrases will be to your advantage wherever you go. Here are some basic everyday words in Spanish and their pronunciation.
English /Spanish/ pronunciation
- Hello good morning / Hello / bway-nohs dee-ahs
- Buenas tardes / good evening / bway-nahs late-ays
- good night / Goodnight / bway-nahs noh-chays
- Bye / Bye / ah-dee-ohs
- Please / Please / for fah-vor
- See you / Bye / ah-stah lah vees-tah
- Many thanks / Thank you very much / moo-chahs grah-see-ahs
- I am sorry / I am sorry / loh see-ehn-toh
- How are you? / How are you? / koh-moh ay-stah oo-sted
- Okay / Good / bee-ehn
- Bad / Wrong / Mahl
- If not / Otherwise / see/not
- What her name? / What is your name? / koh-moh say yah-mah oo-sted
- My name is … / My name is… / what yah-moh
- Nice to meet you / Nice to meet you / moo choh goo stoh
- Do you speak English? / Speak English? / ah-blahs een-glehs
- I don’t understand / I don’t understand / noh ehn-tyen-doh
- Can you help me? / You can help? / pweh-deh ah-yoo-dar-meh
- I am sorry? / How? / oh moh
- Where is it … / Where is it… / dohn-deh eh-stah
- What’s that? / That this? / keh ehs ehs-toh
- I’m tired /I’m tired/ eh-stoy kahn-sah-doh
- I’m hungry /I have a bedroom/ tehn-goh ahm-breh
- I’m cold/hot /I have heat /cold/ tehn-goh kah-lohr / free-oh
- good luck / Good for sure! / bweh-nah swehr-el
- love you / Love you / tay ah-moh
- Much / Much
- A little /little bit
- Sometimes / with times
- Usually / usually
- too / So bad
- Always / weather
Numbers
0 zero / fell roh
1 one / oo-no
2 / back / you do
3 / very / kuah troh
4 / four / kuah troh
5 /five/ seen-koh
6 /sei/ He says
7 / seven / see-ay-tae
8 eight/ oh choh
9 / new / new-ow-ow
10 / say / dee-ays
Weekdays
- Monday /moons/ loo no
- Tuesday /Tuesday/ mar-tays
- Wednesday /myschools/ mee-air-coh-lays
- Thursday /Thursday/ road bays
- Friday / to come / bee-air-nays
- Saturday /Saturday/ sah-bah-doh
- Sunday /sunday/ doh-ming-oh
- This day /today today
- morning /morning/ mahn-yahn-ah
Months of the year
- January /energetic/ ay-nair-oh
- February /february/ fay-bray-roh
- March /March/ tuesday-soh
- april / april / ah-breel
- May /Mayonnaise/ my-oh
- June /junior/ hoo-nee-oh
- July / July / hoo-lee-oh
- August /August/ ah-go-toh
- September /September/ sayp-tee-aim-bray
- october / October / ohk-too-bray
- November /november/ noh-bee-aim-bray
- December /december/ dee-see-aim-bray
Buying food
- Breakfast / breakfast
- Lunch / lunch
- Dinner / food
- Dinner / dinner
- Water / Water
- Milk /lick
- came /came
- beer / Beer
- bread / bread
- eggs / eggs
- meat / meat
- fish / fish
- Fruit / the fruit
- vegetables / the vegetables
- sugar / the sugar
- Salt / fourth
- coffee / coffee
- tea / T shirt
- Supermarket / Supermarket