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Chp. 16 Past
Past experiences
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| la carrera | career / race |
| el colegio | school/private school |
| la escuela primaria | grade school |
| la escuela secundaria | middle/high school |
| la universidad | university/college |
| biografias | biographies |
| el cónsul | consul |
| el director | director |
| el embajador | ambassador |
| el empresario | businessman |
| la gente | people |
| el guardia | guard |
| el peregrino | pilgrim / faithful |
| el presidente | president |
| el senador | senator |
| la tripulación | crew |
| las tropas | troops |
| literatura | literature |
| el escritor | writer |
| la poesía | poetry |
| el poeta | poet |
| la obra | work / masterpiece |
| la obra de teatro | play |
| las memorias | the memoirs |
| accidentes | accidents |
| el barranco | the ravine |
| atrapado | trapped |
| la catástrofe | the catastrophe |
| la causa | the causa |
| el choque | the crash |
| la curva | the curve |
| el descarrilamiento | derailment |
| la explosión | explosion |
| el herido | wounded / injured |
| el lesionado | wounded / injured |
| la mina | mine |
| el minero | the miner |
| el muerto | dead |
| el sobreviviente | survivors |
| hace do años.... | two years ago.... |
| el año pasado | last year |
| el mes pasado | last month |
| la semana pasada | last week |
| el fin de semana pasado | last weekend |
| ayer | yesterday |
| anoche | last night |
| el primer día | the first day |
| el último día | the last day |
| el próximo día | the next day |
| conectar | connect |
| frases | sentences |
| afortunadamente | fortunately |
| desafortunadamente | unfortunately |
| después | later |
| entonces | then |
| junto con | together with |
| luego | later |
| más tarde | later |
| pero | but |
| tambíen | also / too |
| tras | after (usually seen in writing only) |
| ¿Qué ocurrió? | What happened? |
| ¿Qué pasó? | What happened? |
| Hubo.... | There was/were |
| el enfrentamiento | confrontation |
| el ladrón | thief |
| la violencia | violence |
| asistir | to attend |
| comenzar (ie) / comienzo | to start / begin |
| contar (ue) / cuento | to tell a story / count |
| dar la vuelta al mundo | to go around the world |
| dejar | to leave (behind) |
| descrubir | to discover |
| dirigir | to direct |
| empezar (ie) / empiezo | to start / begin |
| enfermarse | to get sick |
| graduarse | to graduate |
| ingresar | to join / enter / go in |
| intentar | to try |
| lograr | to achieve |
| morir (ue) / muero | to die |
| nacer | to be born |
| olvidar | to forget |
| participar | to participate |
| perder (ie) / pierdo | to lose |
| terminar | to finish / end |
| acabar | use up / to finish |
| tocar un instrumento | to play an instrument |
| visitar | to visit |
| adelantar | to pass (a car) |
| arrestar | to arrest |
| caer | to fall |
| chocar | to crash |
| dañar | to damage |
| desaparecer | to disappear |
| estrellarse | to crash |
| fallecer | to die / pass away |
| huir | to flee |
| incendiarse | to catch on fire |
| ocurrir | to happen / occur |
| partirse | to break |
| pasar | to happen / spend time |
| robar | to rob / steal |
| romper | to break |
| salirse | to go off (the road) |
| exclamaciones | exclamations |
| ¡Qué suerte! | What luck! |
| ¡Qué mala suerte! | What bad luck! |
| ¡Es impresionante! | It's shocking! |
| ¡ Lo pasamos muy bien! | We had a great time! |
| un centenar | approx. 100 |
| el dolor de cabeza | headache |
| equivocado | wrong |
| la mayoría | majority |
| mejor | better |
| mismo | same |
| la tierra | earth / dirt |