English-Spanish Vocabulary: Technology and More

English-Spanish Vocabulary

Nouns

• Breakthrough: Avance
• Device: Dispositivo
• Laptop: Portátil
• Location: Ubicación
• Search engine: Motor de búsqueda
• Weight: Peso

Verbs

• Clean up: Limpiar
• Crash: Romper
• Deal with: Tratar con
• Occur: Suceder
• Remind: Recordar
• Shut down: Cerrar
• Spread: Tender
• Start up: Empezar

Adjectives

• Accurate: Preciso
• Common: Común
• Complicated: Complicado
• Convenient: Conveniente
• Efficient: Efectivo
• Foolproof: Infalible
• Innovative: Última
• Latest: Larga durada
• Long-lasting: Anticuado
• Multi-purpose: Multi usos
• Out of date: Anticuado
• Practical: Práctico
• Reliable: Fiable
• Up to date: Actualizado
• User-friendly: Fácil de utilizar

Expressions

• Come up with an idea: Venir con una idea
• Conduct an experiment: Realizar un experimento
• Download music: Descargar música
• Environmentally-friendly: Ecológico
• Make progress: Avanzar
• No longer: No duradero
• Set on fire: Encender el fuego
• Solve the problem: Solucionar un problema
• Store information: Almacenar información

Used to / Would

They are used to express actions that took place frequently in the past but do not take place any more. They are usually related to adverbs or time expressions.

• Every night, Emma used to dream about becoming a policewoman.
• When I was a child, we would often go to the country.

Used to is also used to speak about past situations and states. In this case, we translate the main verb in the past tense. Would cannot be used in this case.

• I used to live in this street.
• Would live in this street. {Incorrect}

Used to cannot be used in the present tense. In the negative and interrogative forms, it requires the auxiliary verb did and it loses the "d" in both cases.

• Did your mother use to travel a lot when she was young?
• She didn't use to travel when she was young.

Adjective Suffixes

Suffixes are endings that we add to some words in order to form new words.

The suffixes -ed and -ing are added to verbs in order to form adjectives.

• Bore
  • Bored
  • Boring