Extra Lap: You can use this one for another day.

“Joder” could mean whatever you want. For instance,

Someone told you he won the lottery, and you say “Joder” (it´s express hapiness)
Someone is anoying you and you say “Joder” (translated as “be quiet!”)
You see something weird, and you say “Joder!” (what the fuck!)
Something bad is going to happend and you say “Joooooder”

It´s more important the emphasys than the word itself and this is something that you never will learn in a book. Hope you can enjoy your next holidays at Spain and could feel this by yourself.

King regards!

I have nothing to add… Others have commented about the usage of ‘joder’ in Spain… But, if you look for interesting spanish words, I have one for you: “follar”. It’s very interesting because its actual meaning is ‘pump a bellows’, but no one uses it in that sense. Now, ‘follar’ means ‘make love’, but it’d be completely correct to say: “follé la hoguera toda la noche” (I pumped the bellows on the fire all night), but that phrase would make spanish people laugh.

About differences between spanish from several countries, I have examples like ‘coger’. In Spain, ‘coger’ means, only, ‘take’ or ‘pick’, but in various contries of South America, means ‘fuck’, and they surprise when hear a phrase like: ‘Voy a coger el periódico’ (I’m going to take the newspaper) which they interpret like make love to the newspaper. But in Spain ‘coger’ never means ‘fuck’.

I’ll come back

Juan.

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