Talla, tamaño and medida all refer to size and what it is.

Talla is used to describe how tall a person is or what size shirt or pants you wear.

Tamaño is used to describe what size soda or french fries you want, large or small.

Medida is the measurement of something, how long your couch is for instance, or the volume of soda in your cup.

Yesterday at my son’s class, two parents were discussing the weather (the rainy season has started here). One mother was saying her other son’s class was canceled because of rain. But the word she used was chipichipi. Chipichipi, here in Mexico, means a light drizzling rain.

Vegetales and verduras are the things your mother is always telling you to eat, your vegetables.

Seems like I hear verduras used more with cooked vegetables and vegetales with fresh vegetables.

Silbar is to whistle, to make a noise with your mouth when you pucker and blow.

Silbo is the noun, whistle, the actual noise.

A silbato is a whistle. An instrument used to produce a whistling noise.

Sangre, as you probably know, is blood. It is the noun form.

The verb is sangrar, to bleed.

Bleeding, the gerund, is sangrando.

And the adjective bloody is sangriento.

Can you guess what adivinar means? That’s right.

Adivinar means to guess. Conjetura is a conjecture. And suponer is to suppose.

Mueble is furniture.

A mueblería is a furniture store. 

Here’s a word a saw the other day, afición. I had never seen or heard it before so I was curious.

Afición is liking or affection. Afecto is another word for this.

When giving directions to someone, derecha is right and derecho is straight.

When talking about personal or legal rights, derechos is the correct word.

Did you know there are different names for the inside and outside of a corner?

The outside of a corner is called la esquina.

The inside of a corner is called el rincón. We have several restaurants here in town that have the word rincón in there name.