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Cabezonada
I am having a problem finding a definition for this word.
... also corazonada
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Un cabezón o cabezota es una persona muy terca (pigheaded, I think). Una cabezonada es una acción propia de un cabezota, una terquedad.
Una corazonada es como un presentimiento. En inglés creo que hunch. |
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"cabezonada" = "obstinacy", or "stubbornness".
"corazonada" = several meanings to my experience: can be "courage", "impulse", "premonition", "foreboding", and one that i've read but not heard used, "entrails" ( here i would use "entranas" con tilde.). hey poli - for good, comprehensive definitions, i depended on 'Cassell's English-Spanish Spanish-English Dictionary' throughout my B.A. studies; it always served well. irmamar - se me habia olvidado "terca" - los estudios de la segunda lengua son trabajo de toda la vida, ?verdad? hermit
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"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long." miguel de cervantes saavedra Last edited by AngelicaDeAlquezar; October 02, 2009 at 01:20 PM. Reason: Merged back-to-back posts |
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Sí, toda la vida
¿Entrañas por corazonada? No sé, no sé... Al ver a la gente sufriendo tanto se me remueven las entrañas de ira y de dolor. Tuve una corazonada: sabía que ibas a venir |
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Thanks Irmamar and Hermit. Corazonada is a good word to know. I alway used the verb presentir to express. Now, thanks to you, I found another route.
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You're welcome (de res )
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irmamar - de acuerdo con tus dudas, por lo visto (mas bien lo leido)
se entiende asi solamente en algunas partes. hermit
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hermit, could you give me some example?
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MAdrid´s mayor feels it in his bones ( tines una corazonada) Obama also feels it in his bones For Chicago.
also testarudez Last edited by AngelicaDeAlquezar; October 02, 2009 at 01:21 PM. Reason: Merged back-to-back posts |
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I have always used testaduro. Now I see that it's not a word in Spanish (maybe I invented it, or maybe it's an Italian-American expression that Latinos understand).
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