(She’s bragging about the money she earned.) 6.
For example:Ĭacarea el dinero que ha gañado. The verb in Spanish is cacarear, and when you hear it used with a human as the subject it means to boast about something. It’s hard to top cock-a-doodle-do for aural silliness, but the Spanish quiquiriquí comes close. If you ever find yourself running dry for conversation in an international business mixer, youth hostel or airport, just ask your fellow world travelers what sound they think a rooster makes. Then, of course, there’s the activity that provides meaning to the lives of all, human and fowl alike: cantar (to sing). To trill or warble in your throat, whether you’re a human or a bird, is trinar, gorjear or gorgoritar. The verb form is piar, and pipiar and piolar mean the same thing. If you want to emphasize that you won’t reveal a secret, you can say: pájaro (bird) - píoĪ pío (that’s an accent mark, not a dot, so make sure you stress the I: “PEE-oh”) is a tweet or chirp. Graznan sus quejas. (They cry out/babble out their complaints.) 4. The verb used for duck quacking is graznar, and quite fabulously it can also be used to describe high-pitched, unimportant babble sometimes emitted by humans. Ladrar- to bark when talking about humans, to make noises without follow-through, to blusterĪrrufarse - to bark menacingly while showing teeth 3. We live with, love and communicate with dogs all the time, so it’s no surprise that we have lots of verbs for the types of noises that they produce. In Spanish, they are: Ellos croan (they croak) can also be used for talking about anyone who is hoarse.
In English we’d say that they croak, and the figurative use of croar is fine in Spanish as well. Las ranas croan (frogs croak), of course.īut what about that sexy/scary/creepy way that some old (and even occasionally young) Andalusian men hack out syllables through the cigarette tar lining their throats? Now let’s meet some animals and say hello to them… in Spanish. I’ve tried to present the sounds that are most commonly used in the whole Spanish-speaking world and use their most common spellings, but do note that there are some regional variations out there. At times, theses verbs and onomatopoeia provide lovely insight into how Spanish speakers hear and experience these animal sounds, and sometimes they’re just plain fun. I’ve also included the verbs that describe these sounds (just like English’s “a lamb bleats,” “a horse whinnies,” etc.). What follows is my shortlist of the fauna most worth talking to, accompanied by the noises you should make when communicating with them in Spanish.
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This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. paloma (dove) - cu-curru-cu-cú, cucurrucucú 5. gallo (rooster) - quiquiriquí, kikirikí.It’s time, then, to learn to speak to animals, and yes, the Spanish ear has a whole different way of hearing their squawks, honks and roars. This post is for those who might be a bit tapped out from learning to speak Spanish to humans, with all their complex slang, metaphors and counter-intuitive expressions. Sure, you think you can quack like a duck.īut can you quack in the language of Cervantes? Aug20 Animal Sounds in Spanish: Can You Bray, Squawk and Meow en Español?
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