English→Puerto Rican Spanish

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Puerto Rican Spanish, boricua vocabulary and Spanglish comfort included.

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474 local dialects

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What locals actually say

What's up?

¿Qué es la que hay?

The long-form island greeting. Nobody outside Puerto Rico opens a conversation quite like this.

We're going out tonight.

Vamos a janguear esta noche.

“Janguear”, from hang out, is Puerto Rican Spanglish that locals actually use, not a joke word.

It's amazing!

¡Está brutal!

“Brutal” is high praise in San Juan and confusing anywhere the word stays literal.

I don't have any cash.

No tengo chavos.

Chavos means money in Puerto Rican Spanish and signals an informal local register.

Take the bus over there.

Coge la guagua para allá.

Guagua means bus in Puerto Rico, while coge is the familiar tú command used casually with someone you know.

Let's eat something at the neighborhood spot.

Vamos a comer algo en el chinchorro.

Chinchorro refers to a casual local food spot in Puerto Rico and signals a relaxed, distinctly island setting.

My mom is coming over.

Mi mai viene pa' casa.

Mai is the casual Puerto Rican form of madre or mamá, and pa' is the everyday spoken shortening of para.

I have a lot of work today.

Hoy estoy bien fajao con el trabajo.

Fajao comes from fajarse, meaning to work hard or struggle through something, and signals colloquial Puerto Rican speech.

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

How Puerto Rican Spanish differs

Puerto Rican Spanish. Tú informal; local colour where casual: wepa, janguear from hang out, chavos for money, guagua for bus, zafacón for trash can; comfortable English loanwords.

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Localization Notes explaining why locals say it that way