English→Argentine Spanish

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Rioplatense Spanish with voseo, Argentine vocabulary, and the intonation of Buenos Aires in writing.

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474 local dialects

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What locals actually say

Do you want to come with us?

¿Querés venir con nosotros?

Argentina uses voseo: “querés”, not “quieres”. One verb form instantly sounds local.

That party was amazing.

Esa fiesta estuvo buenísima, una locura.

Porteño emphasis leans on “una locura” where other dialects would stop at “increíble”.

Can you lend me some cash until Friday?

¿Me prestás unos mangos hasta el viernes?

Prestás uses voseo, while mangos is an informal Argentine term for money.

Which bus goes to the city center?

¿Qué bondi me deja en el centro?

Bondi is the informal Argentine word for bus and signals everyday local speech.

Could you pass me the avocado?

¿Me pasás la palta?

Pasás uses voseo, and palta is the Argentine word for avocado.

My grandma is picking me up from school.

Mi nona me pasa a buscar por la escuela.

Nona is an affectionate Argentine term for grandmother, and pasar a buscar is a common local construction for picking someone up.

I have way too much work today.

Hoy tengo una banda de laburo.

Laburo means work in informal Argentine Spanish, while una banda de signals a very large amount.

Do you think it will start raining later?

¿Decís que se larga a llover más tarde?

Decís uses voseo, and largarse a llover is a colloquial Argentine construction meaning that rain is about to start.

Notes like these come with every AIRTranslate translation, so you learn why locals phrase it that way as you go.

How Argentine Spanish differs

Rioplatense Spanish. Voseo throughout: vos tenés, vos sos, imperative vení/decí. Che as informal address, local vocabulary (laburo, quilombo informal, copado, colectivo, pileta, frutilla, palta). Ustedes for plural. Avoid tú forms entirely.

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