English→Salvadoran Spanish

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Salvadoran Spanish with voseo conjugation and the vocabulary of San Salvador.

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What locals actually say

Do you want coffee?

¿Querés café?

El Salvador uses “vos” with its own verb endings. The “tú quieres” of textbooks marks you as foreign at the first word.

How cool!

¡Qué chivo!

“Chivo” is Salvadoran for cool. In most of the Spanish-speaking world it just means a goat.

I don't have money.

No tengo pisto.

“Pisto” is Salvadoran and Guatemalan for money. In Spain, pisto is a vegetable dish. Context does not save you; dialect does.

Can you tell me where the market is?

¿Me podés decir dónde queda el mercado?

Podés is Salvadoran voseo, the familiar form used with peers.

Your little brother is still a kid.

Tu hermanito todavía es un bicho.

Bicho means kid in informal Salvadoran speech and sounds familiar and affectionate here.

I have to work tomorrow.

Mañana me toca chambear.

Chambear is an informal local term for working.

Phew, it’s so hot today!

¡Púchica, qué calor hace hoy!

Púchica is a distinctly Salvadoran exclamation showing surprise or emphasis.

I’m feeling down today.

Hoy ando agüevado.

Ando agüevado is colloquial Salvadoran phrasing for feeling low or unmotivated.

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

How Salvadoran Spanish differs

Salvadoran Spanish. Voseo among peers (vos podés), usted respectful; local colour where casual: chivo for cool, bicho/bicha for kid (informal), pisto for money.

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