Ages ago I discussed the word curro (work) which comes from the verb currar, today’s word.
Currar is pretty much a colloquial word, although widely accepted in Spain. I don’t know if it’s used in Latin-America in the same way, but I’m sure it’s more or less a vulgar word in Argentina where it means ‘to defraud’.
Next to ‘to work’ it can also mean ‘to hit (someone)’, which is even more colloquial.
Sentences
Me voy porque tengo que currar.
I’m going because I’ve got to work.
Se levanta a las seis para ir a currar.
He gets up at six to go to work.
Unos matones le curraron.
Some thugs hit him.
Le han currado por entrometerse.
They hit her because she meddled.
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Ramses,
I’ve been following your site for a while but it’s not until now that I’ve started my Spanish studies; it was because I was trying to advance my Japanese to a level where it was self sustainable. At my current rate, I should be literate by the end of the year.
Today was my first day of Spanish. It was relatively easy to pick up beginning basics. I’m ignoring grammar as much as possible and have gotten 100 Spanish to Japanese sentences in my SRS. I got those sentences from smart.fm but they’re starting to get too easy (boring) for me already. Even when I was learning Japanese, I stopped using smart.fm after 50 sentences. I’ve decided I like the language. My problem is I don’t want to use Spanish-English sentences. I’m looking for Spanish-Japanese sentences databases (moderately difficult) so I can increase my vocabulary without suffering through sentences that are way too simple. Any help would be much appreciated.
Sorry, I can’t help you with Spanish-Japanese sentences, simply because I don’t speak it and have no interest in the language. Of course, you can translate the English sentences to Japanese yourself.