Uruguayan Spanish→English

Translate Uruguayan Spanish to English the way locals mean it.

Uruguayan Spanish speakers use words like ta, bo, and vamo' arriba to soften, encourage, or frame what they mean in ways a textbook reader can misread literally.

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What locals actually say

Ta, dejá, no pasa nada.

It's fine, forget it, no worries.

Ta means okay or alright here, while dejá is a soft way to tell someone to drop it, not simply the command leave.

Bo, ¿me arrimás hasta la parada?

Hey, can you drop me off at the bus stop?

Bo is an informal way to get someone's attention, and arrimar can mean giving someone a lift or taking them closer, not just bringing something nearer.

Vamo' arriba, que ya sale.

Come on, it'll work out, we're almost there.

Vamo' arriba is a common Uruguayan encouragement meaning keep going or hang in there, not literally let's go upward.

¿Me prestás unos mangos? Te los devuelvo el viernes.

Can you lend me some cash? I’ll pay you back on Friday.

Mangos is informal Uruguayan and Rioplatense slang for money, while prestás shows voseo.

¿Picamos un refuerzo? Estoy muerto de hambre.

Shall we grab a sandwich? I’m starving.

Refuerzo is a distinctly Uruguayan everyday word for a sandwich, and muerto de hambre is an emphatic colloquial construction.

Mi gurisa arranca el liceo el lunes.

My daughter starts high school on Monday.

Gurisa means girl or daughter in colloquial Uruguayan Spanish, while liceo is the usual local term for high school.

¿Me pasás el laburo antes del mediodía?

Can you send me the assignment before noon?

Laburo is Rioplatense slang for work or a job, and pasás uses the Uruguayan voseo form.

Está fresco, me pongo el buzo.

It’s chilly, so I’m putting on a sweatshirt.

Buzo is the Uruguayan term for a sweatshirt or pullover, and the short present-tense phrasing signals casual speech.

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

How Uruguayan Spanish differs

Uruguayan Spanish. Rioplatense voseo (vos tenés) alongside tú with vos verb forms (tú tenés); ta as agreement, bo informal address, championes for sneakers, ómnibus for bus.

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