domingo, 13 de mayo de 2018

CANDAR, a forgotten Spanish word.


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In "Ten English Words that do not exist in Spanish"

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67mqkuDOU24

we are told that there are ten words in English which do not have equivalents in Spanish. Well, well, well... This comes to show that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We asume that what we do not know does not exist. One instance:
To lock. Usually we will hear "cerrar con llave" as a translation, but there is a word meaning to lock in Spanish: CANDAR which María Moliner defines as: "cerrar con llave."

Another day we will tackle another "inexistent" word.

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