English→Chilean Spanish

Translate English to Chilean Spanish like a local.

Chilean Spanish with its own pace, endings, and the slang that makes Chile famously hard for outsiders.

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474 local dialects

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What locals actually say

Do you get it?

¿Cachai?

“Cachai” is the signature Chilean tag question, from “cachar”, to catch. No other country uses it this way.

Right away.

Al tiro.

“Al tiro” means immediately only in Chile. Elsewhere it draws blank stares.

How cool!

¡Qué bacán!

“Bacán” is Chilean praise. Mexicans say “qué padre”, Argentines “qué copado”; each one places the speaker.

Can you lend me ten thousand pesos?

¿Me prestái diez lucas?

Luca significa mil pesos, y prestái usa el voseo informal chileno, típico de una conversación muy relajada.

Take the city bus to the center.

Toma la micro hasta el centro.

Micro es la palabra chilena habitual para el bus urbano.

My younger brother is coming over.

Mi hermano chico viene a la casa.

Hermano chico es una forma muy usada en Chile para decir hermano menor.

I have way too much work today.

Hoy tengo caleta de pega.

Pega significa trabajo y caleta intensifica la cantidad, con un tono coloquial chileno.

I’m so embarrassed.

Me da mucha plancha.

Plancha es la palabra chilena para vergüenza o bochorno en situaciones informales.

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

How Chilean Spanish differs

Chilean Spanish. Tú with characteristic -ái/-ís endings only in very informal speech (cachái); po as emphatic particle, fome, bacán, al tiro for right away, luca for a thousand pesos, micro for city bus. Keep neutral-formal text standard.

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