{"id":11895,"date":"2015-07-20T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:36:30","slug":"palabras-polisemicas-en-espanol-polysemy-in-spanish-word-choice-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/2015\/07\/20\/palabras-polisemicas-en-espanol-polysemy-in-spanish-word-choice-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Palabras polis\u00e9micas en espa\u00f1ol – Polysemy in Spanish: word choice matters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palabras polis\u00e9micas en espa\u00f1ol<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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\u00bfSe te ocurren m\u00e1s frases con palabras polis\u00e9micas?<\/p><\/div>\n

Una palabra es polis\u00e9mica si tiene varios significados pero un \u00fanico significante. En espa\u00f1ol ocurre a menudo que se utiliza la misma palabra dos veces en la misma oraci\u00f3n, dando lugar a frases bastante curiosas que pueden llamar la atenci\u00f3n del estudiante de espa\u00f1ol. He aqu\u00ed algunos ejemplos \u00bfSe te ocurre alguno m\u00e1s? \u00a1Comp\u00e1rtelo con nosotros!<\/p>\n

Polysemy is the existence of several meanings in a single word. In Spanish happens that the same word is used twice in the same sentence, leading to rather funny phrases that can be somewhat confusing for the student of Spanish. Here are some examples. Can you think of more sentences in Spanish like these? Share it with us!<\/span><\/p>\n

No traje<\/strong><\/span> el traje<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> I didn\u2019t bring the suit<\/span>
\nMa\u00f1ana<\/strong> por la ma\u00f1ana<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> Tomorrow morning<\/span>
\nOlvid\u00e9 la bolsa<\/strong> en la Bolsa<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> I forgot my bag in the stock exchange<\/span>
\n\u00bfSe cura<\/strong> el cura<\/strong>? \u2013<\/span> Is the priest healing?<\/span>
\nTe he dado<\/strong> el dado<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> I have give you the dice<\/span>
\nMe regal\u00f3 un im\u00e1n<\/strong> del Im\u00e1n<\/strong> para la nevera \u2013<\/span> He gave me a magnet of the Iman for the fridge<\/span>
\nEstoy sentado en el banco<\/strong>\u00a0frente al banco<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> I am sitting on the bench in front of the bank<\/span>
\nUn mono<\/strong> muy mono<\/strong> vestido con un mono<\/strong> de trabajo \u2013 <\/span>A very cute monkey dressed with overalls<\/span>
\nEl chico bajo<\/strong> es el que toca el bajo<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> The short guy is the one playing the bass<\/span>
\nBota<\/strong> esa bota<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> Throw away that boot<\/span>
\nSal<\/strong> a por sal<\/strong>, por favor \u2013<\/span> Get out to buy some salt, please<\/span>
\n\u00bfViste<\/strong> c\u00f3mo viste<\/strong>? \u2013<\/span> Did you see how she dress?<\/span>
\nVino<\/strong> a la cata de vino<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> He came to the wine tasting<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palabras polis\u00e9micas en espa\u00f1ol Una palabra es polis\u00e9mica si tiene varios significados pero un \u00fanico significante. En espa\u00f1ol ocurre a menudo que se utiliza la misma palabra dos veces en la misma oraci\u00f3n, dando lugar a frases bastante curiosas que pueden llamar la atenci\u00f3n del estudiante de espa\u00f1ol. He aqu\u00ed algunos ejemplos \u00bfSe te ocurre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,392],"tags":[52,395,323,77,509,394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11895"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/nyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}