Honduran Spanish→English

Translate Honduran Spanish to English the way locals mean it.

Honduran Spanish uses vos with friends and words like ahuevarse, cheque, and pisto in ways a textbook reader may mistake for literal meanings.

474 local dialects

What locals actually say

Tranquilo, no te ahuevés, todo va a salir bien.

Don’t worry, everything’s going to be fine.

Ahuevarse means to worry, lose heart, or feel intimidated, not to do anything involving an egg.

¿Ya estás listo? Sí, hombre, está cheque.

Are you ready? Yeah, it’s all good.

Cheque is casual Honduran shorthand for okay or settled, not a bank check.

Hoy ando sin pisto, ¿me prestás para el bus?

I’m broke today. Can you lend me bus fare?

Pisto is informal Honduran Spanish for money, and prestás shows the familiar vos form.

Andá derecho y doblá después de la pulpería.

Go straight and turn after the corner store.

Andá and doblá use Honduran voseo, while pulpería means a neighborhood convenience store and signals local everyday speech.

Pasame las baleadas, que ya me rugen las tripas.

Pass me the baleadas, my stomach is already growling.

Baleadas are a distinctly Honduran flour-tortilla dish, and rugirme las tripas is a colloquial construction for being very hungry.

Mi cipote se quedó con la abuela.

My kid stayed with Grandma.

Cipote is a Honduran colloquial word for a child, signaling an informal local family register.

Ya voy jalando para la chamba, jefe.

I am heading to work now, boss.

Chamba is informal Honduran vocabulary for work, and jalando gives the sentence a casual, conversational tone.

Está cayendo un pijazo de agua; mejor esperemos aquí.

It is pouring buckets, so we had better wait here.

Pijazo is a strongly colloquial Honduran intensifier meaning a lot or a heavy hit, here emphasizing extremely heavy rain.

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

Honduran Spanish. Vos among peers, usted respectful; local colour where casual: cheque for OK, catracho self-reference, pisto informal for money.

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