English-Spanish Vocabulary for Health and Grammar

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English-Spanish Vocabulary and Grammar Reference

Body Parts (English to Spanish)

  • Ankle → Tobillo
  • Chest → Pecho
  • Eyebrow → Ceja
  • Eyelash → Pestaña
  • Eyelid → Párpado
  • Forehead → Frente
  • Heel → Talón
  • Hip → Cadera
  • Kidney → Riñones
  • Liver → Hígado
  • Lungs → Pulmones
  • Muscle → Músculo
  • Nail → Uña
  • Ribs → Costilla
  • Thigh → Cuixa
  • Waist → Cintura

Health and Fitness Phrases (English to Spanish)

  • Back on your feet (adj) → De nuevo en tus pies
  • Black out (phrasal verb) → Desmayarse
  • Come down with (phrasal verb) → Enfermar por alguna cosa
  • Full of beans (adj) → Mucha energía
  • Keep in shape (v) → Mantenerse en forma
  • On top of the world (adj) → En la cima del mundo
  • On your last legs (adj) → En las últimas
  • Out of shape (adj) → No estar en forma
  • Pull through (phrasal verb) → Sacar de un apuro
  • The picture of health (adj) → La imagen de la salud
  • Under the weather (adj) → No encontrarse bien

Medical and Illness Vocabulary

  • A and E (Accident and Emergency) → Urgencia
  • Broken → Roto
  • Fracture → Fractura
  • Injury → Lesión
  • Operation
  • Painful → Doloroso
  • Painkiller → Analgésico
  • Physiotherapy → Fisioterapia
  • X-ray
  • Ache → Dolor
  • Exhaustion → Cansancio
  • Fever → Fiebre
  • Get better → Mejorar
  • Infectious → Infeccioso
  • Injection → Inyección
  • Lower → De la cintura hacia abajo
  • Prescription → Receta médica
  • Sick → Enfermar
  • Sneeze → Estornudar
  • Sore → Dolor
  • Symptom
  • Treat → Tratamiento

Grammar: Conditional Sentences

0 Conditional

Use: Always TRUE facts.

Structure: If + Present Simple, ... Present Simple

1st Conditional

Use: Possible situations in the future.

Structure: If + Present Simple, ... Will + Infinitive

2nd Conditional

Use: Imaginary or impossible situations (Present or Future).

Structure: If + Past Simple, ... Would/Wouldn't + Infinitive

3rd Conditional

Use: Imaginary or impossible situations in the Past.

Structure: If + Past Perfect, ... Would/Wouldn't Have + Past Participle

Connectors and Related Structures
  • Unless = If ... not, except if
  • As long as
  • Provided/Providing (that) = If, only if
  • In case = Because maybe
Wish Clauses (I wish / If only)
  • I wish/ If only + Past Simple: Imaginary situations different in the present.
  • I wish/ If only + Past Perfect: Past situations you'd like to be different.
  • I wish/ If only + Would/Wouldn't + Infinitive: Somebody's habitual behaviour that we want to criticise and change.

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