Word lists · A2
Life events
Spanish words for “life events”, most frequent first.
| # | Word | Type | Meaning | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 411 | casar | verb | casarse (con): to get married (to); to marry (a couple) | A1 |
| 474 | nacer | verb | to be born; to rise, to originate (river) | A1 |
| 561 | crecer | verb | to grow; to grow up | A1 |
| 604 | el matrimonio | noun · m | marriage; married couple | A2 |
| 621 | celebrar | verb | to celebrate; to hold (a meeting, an event) | A2 |
| 683 | cumplir | verb | to fulfil, to keep (a promise); to turn (an age) | A2 |
| 720 | casado | adjective | married | A2 |
| 1040 | mudar | verb | to change; mudarse: to move (house) | A2 |
| 1053 | la boda | noun · f | wedding | A2 |
| 1184 | nacido | adjective | born | A2 |
| 1259 | la navidad | noun · f | Christmas | B1 |
| 1506 | el cumpleaños | noun · m | birthday | B1 |
| 1820 | el nacimiento | noun · m | birth; source (of a river) | B1 |
| 1905 | casarse | verb | to get married | B1 |
| 1914 | la ceremonia | noun · f | ceremony | B1 |
| 2020 | la juventud | noun · f | youth (time of life); young people | B1 |
| 2239 | la vela | noun · f | candle; sail | B1 |
| 2288 | el funeral | noun · m | funeral | B1 |
| 2390 | el aniversario | noun · m | anniversary | B1 |
| 2395 | la infancia | noun · f | childhood; children (as a group) | B1 |
| 2445 | envolver | verb | to wrap (up); to involve, to surround | B1 |
| 2703 | el divorcio | noun · m | divorce | B2 |
| 3527 | divorciar | verb | to get divorced (divorciarse) | B2 |
| 3559 | la separación | noun · f | separation | B2 |
| 3908 | la ruptura | noun · f | break-up; rupture, breaking off | B2 |
| 4306 | felicitar | verb | to congratulate | C1 |
| 4463 | la felicitación | noun · f | congratulations; greeting card | C1 |
| 4818 | el entierro | noun · m | burial, funeral | C1 |
| 4959 | la pascua | noun · f | Easter; Passover | C1 |
| 4969 | envejecer | verb | to age, to grow old; to make look older | C1 |
| 5031 | la cuna | noun · f | cradle, cot; birthplace, cradle | C1 |
| 5412 | divorciado | adjective | divorced | C1 |
| 5897 | navideño | adjective | Christmas (adjective) | C1 |
| 6028 | el adorno | noun · m | ornament, decoration | C1 |
| 6046 | la niñez | noun · f | childhood | C1 |
| 6095 | el velo | noun · m | veil; thin layer, film | C1 |
| 6189 | adornar | verb | to decorate, to adorn; to embellish (a story) | C1 |
| 6646 | el viudo | noun · m | widower; widowed man | C2 |
| 6752 | la jubilación | noun · f | retirement; pension | C2 |
| 6793 | la funeraria | noun · f | funeral home; undertaker's | C2 |
| 6811 | el preparativo | noun · m | preparation; arrangement | C2 |
| 6830 | matrimonial | adjective | marital; matrimonial | C2 |
| 6855 | festejar | verb | to celebrate | C2 |
| 6886 | emigrar | verb | to emigrate | C2 |
| 7021 | sepultar | verb | to bury (formal); to bury (under rubble or snow) | C2 |
| 7027 | la sexualidad | noun · f | sexuality | C2 |
| 7099 | el exiliado | noun · m | exile (person) | C2 |
| 7198 | el fallecimiento | noun · m | death; passing | C2 |
| 7295 | single | adjective | single; unattached (Anglicism, informal) | C2 |
| 7397 | el casamiento | noun · m | wedding; marriage | C2 |
| 7448 | la festividad | noun · f | festival; holiday; feast day | C2 |
| 7487 | el brindis | noun · m | toast (drinking); dedication (bullfighting) | C2 |
| 7539 | la adolescencia | noun · f | adolescence | C2 |
| 7599 | heterosexual | adjective | heterosexual | C2 |
| 7611 | la madurez | noun · f | maturity; ripeness | C2 |
| 7652 | la honra | noun · f | honour; dignity; funeral honours (honras fúnebres) | C2 |
| 7696 | el belén | noun · m | nativity scene; crib; commotion; mess (colloquial) | C2 |
| 7762 | el luto | noun · m | mourning | C2 |
| 7766 | la homosexualidad | noun · f | homosexuality | C2 |
| 7773 | la urna | noun · f | ballot box; urn (funerary) | C2 |
| 7794 | extinto | adjective | extinct; deceased; late (el extinto) | C2 |
| 8066 | el jubilado | noun · m | retiree; pensioner; retired (adjective use) | C2 |
| 8235 | el bautismo | noun · m | baptism; baptism of fire (first tough experience) | C2 |
| 8421 | jubilar | verb | to retire (jubilarse); to retire (a person or an object) from service | C2 |
| 8481 | la mudanza | noun · f | move; relocation (house); change (literary) | C2 |
| 8868 | radicar | verb | to lie in; to consist in (radicar en); to settle (radicarse); to file (Latin America) | C2 |
| 9077 | la virginidad | noun · f | virginity; purity; untouched state | C2 |
| 9112 | diecinueve | number | nineteen | C2 |
| 9741 | el festejo | noun · m | celebration; festivity | C2 |
| 9921 | el / la durmiente | noun · mf | sleeper; sleeping person; railway sleeper (Latin America) | C2 |
| 10003 | la nochebuena | noun · f | Christmas Eve; poinsettia (Mexico) | C2 |
| 10147 | la vejez | noun · f | old age | C2 |
| 10521 | el ocio | noun · m | leisure; free time; idleness; doing nothing | C2 |
| 10549 | arraigado | adjective | deep-rooted; entrenched; settled; long established in a place (a person) | C2 |
| 10549 | arraigar | verb | to take root (plants); to become established; to take hold (customs, ideas) | C2 |
| 10562 | rutinario | adjective | routine (check, procedure); humdrum; monotonous | C2 |
| 10566 | el adulterio | noun · m | adultery | C2 |
| 10596 | el abuelito | noun · m | grandpa; granddad (affectionate); old man or old lady (kind way to refer to them) | C2 |
| 10603 | funerario | adjective | funeral; funerary (services, rites); funerary (tombs, burial objects) | C2 |
| 10616 | la travesura | noun · f | prank; naughty trick | C2 |
| 10645 | el cortejo | noun · m | procession; retinue (funeral, wedding); courtship | C2 |
| 10676 | el recado | noun · m | message (left for someone); errand (Spain: hacer recados) | C2 |
| 10762 | cambiarse | verb | to get changed (clothes); to move; to switch (cambiarse de casa, de escuela, de trabajo) | C2 |
| 10825 | la sepultura | noun · f | grave; tomb; burial (the act) | C2 |
| 10891 | el encierro | noun · m | confinement; lockdown; bull run (encierro de toros, Pamplona) | C2 |
| 10910 | acordarse | verb | to remember (acordarse de); to think of; to recall suddenly (me acordé de) | C2 |
| 10915 | el adivino | noun · m | fortune-teller; seer; mind reader (no soy adivino) | C2 |
| 10955 | el bautizo | noun · m | baptism; christening; bautizo de fuego: baptism of fire | C2 |
| 11086 | el ligue | noun · m | fling; casual romance (Spain); pulling; chatting someone up (ir de ligue) | C2 |
| 11121 | la infidelidad | noun · f | infidelity (in a relationship); disloyalty (to a cause or principles) | C2 |
| 11153 | divorciarse | verb | to get divorced; to break away from; to part company with (figurative) | C2 |
| 11162 | el / la vidente | noun · mf | clairvoyant; seer; sighted person (as opposed to blind) | C2 |
| 11171 | el mausoleo | noun · m | mausoleum | C2 |
| 11217 | el aburrimiento | noun · m | boredom; bore; tedious thing (informal) | C2 |
| 11231 | el chamán | noun · m | shaman; charismatic leader or guru (figurative) | C2 |
| 11267 | nupcial | adjective | bridal (dress, bouquet); wedding (ceremony, march, night) | C2 |
| 11285 | el / la médium | noun · mf | medium (spiritualist) | C2 |
| 11305 | la abstinencia | noun · f | abstinence; withdrawal (síndrome de abstinencia) | C2 |
| 11369 | la etnia | noun · f | ethnic group; ethnicity | C2 |
| 11386 | la reencarnación | noun · f | reincarnation (belief); reincarnation; new embodiment (figurative) | C2 |
| 11403 | trans | adjective | trans; transgender; trans person (noun use) | C2 |
| 11458 | el / la indigente | noun · mf | destitute person; homeless person; destitute; indigent (adjective) | C2 |
| 11493 | mundano | adjective | worldly; of this world (not spiritual); society; fashionable (vida mundana) | C2 |
| 11524 | despertarse | verb | to wake up; to wake up to reality; to come to one's senses | C2 |
| 11526 | el maltrato | noun · m | mistreatment; abuse; domestic abuse (maltrato doméstico) | C2 |
| 11628 | enderezar | verb | to straighten; to set right; to put back on track (enderezar la vida) | C2 |
| 11641 | recluido | adjective | confined; shut away | C2 |
| 11641 | recluir | verb | to confine; to shut away; to shut oneself away (recluirse) | C2 |
| 11689 | malgastar | verb | to waste; to squander (money, inheritance) | C2 |
| 11739 | el panteón | noun · m | pantheon; national mausoleum for great figures; cemetery (Mexico: panteón) | C2 |
| 11764 | el alejamiento | noun · m | moving away; estrangement; orden de alejamiento: restraining order (Spain) | C2 |
| 11785 | elle | pronoun | they (gender-neutral singular pronoun, informal) | C2 |