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Learn Buenos Aires Spanish
A sample of the porteño vocabulary, slang and vos you will hear in Buenos Aires. Create a free account to open every lesson.
Porteño words
- Che
- Hey / mate
- Para llamar la atención de alguien.
- Boludo
- Dude (or idiot, by tone)
- Entre amigos es cariñoso; con desconocidos, insulto.
- Laburo
- Job, work
- Viene del italiano lavoro.
- Bondi
- City bus
- El colectivo, en lunfardo.
- Birra
- Beer
- Del italiano birra.
- Quilombo
- A mess, chaos
- Muy usado y algo informal.
- Mango
- A peso (money)
- "No tengo un mango": no tengo plata.
- Fiaca
- Laziness, can't be bothered
- "Tengo fiaca".
Everyday phrases
¿Todo bien?
All good? (a standard hello)
¿Me das un cortado y dos medialunas?
Can I get a cortado and two croissants?
Dale, nos vemos a las nueve.
OK, see you at nine.
Está re bueno.
It's really good.
Ni en pedo.
No way, not a chance.
Vos instead of tú
- Vos tenés
- You have
- Vos querés
- You want
- Vos sos
- You are
- Vení
- Come (command)
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