Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Saturday May 16, 2009

cuidado, noun:
care

One of the basic meanings of cuidado is care.

Esta blusa hay que lavarla con cuidado
This blouse needs to be washed with care

The phrase con cuidado often translates as carefully:

Manejaba con cuidado
He was driving carefully

And you can intensify cuidado with adjectives such as mucho or the more literary sumo:

Hay que estudiar la propuesta con mucho cuidado
We need to look at the proposal very carefully

Abrió la puerta con sumo cuidado para que no lo oyeran
He opened the door very carefully so that they wouldn’t hear him

Content By

Spanish Word of the Day ArchiveSaturday May 16, 2009