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Dominican Spanish words: money
30 Dominican words and phrases about money, the most used first, each with an example. Open any word to hear it.
- cualto — money
«No tengo cualto hasta el viernes.» I have no money until Friday. - estar arrancao — to be flat broke, penniless
«Ando arrancao hasta la quincena.» I'm flat broke until payday. - estar en olla — to be broke
«Esta semana estoy en olla.» I'm broke this week. - estar roto — to be broke
«Toy roto hasta el viernes.» I'm broke until Friday. - fíame — put it on my tab
«Fíame el pan y te pago el viernes.» Put the bread on my tab and I will pay you Friday. - juntar lo cualto — to scrape the money together
«Estoy juntando lo cualto para el pasaje.» I'm scraping the money together for the ticket. - la milonga — a thousand-peso bill
«Trae esas milonga' que te pagaron.» Bring those thousand-peso bills they paid you. - la moña — a loan, a lend
«¿Y no pensaste en pedir una moña?» And you didn't think about asking for a loan? - la papeleta — bills, cash
«Anda con la papeleta en el bolsillo.» He walks around with the cash in his pocket. - la parada — the bet, the stake
«¿Cuánto e' la parada?» How much is the bet? - los pesos — pesos, the money
«Un viaje corto son cien o doscientos pesos.» A short ride is a hundred or two hundred pesos. - sin ni uno — without a cent
«Llegué a fin de mes sin ni uno.» I got to the end of the month without a cent. - carabelita — fake, knock-off
«Dame una cadena carabelita.» Give me a knock-off chain. - charlatán / charlatana — a con artist, a fast talker
«No le compre' a ese charlatán.» Don't buy from that fast talker. - el joseo — the hustle
«El joseo e' duro, pero no me quejo.» The hustle is hard, but I'm not complaining. - estar parao — to be doing well
«Ese muchacho ta parao, consiguió un buen trabajo.» That guy is doing well, he got a good job. - fiao — on credit, on the tab
«Dame do pane fiao hata el vierne.» Give me two breads on the tab until Friday. - josiar — to hustle
«Ah, pero tú ta josiando lo tuyo, tú tiene' pila de cualto.» So you're out there hustling, you've got plenty of cash. - tener la paca — to be loaded
«Ese tiene la paca, paga to' en efectivo.» That guy is loaded, he pays everything in cash. - chele — cent
«Estoy sin un chele.» I am flat broke. - como un chele — fast as a coin drops
«Se fue como un chele.» He took off in a flash. - el pelagato — a nobody, a broke chancer
«Ese pelagato no tiene ni pa'l concho.» That nobody doesn't even have money for the bus. - guisar — to land something good
«Ese muchacho ta guisando bien.» That guy is doing well for himself. - pelar — to cut hair; to clean someone out
«Me van a pelar en la barbería.» I'm getting my hair cut at the barbershop. - el san — a rotating savings club
«Estoy metida en un san para comprar la nevera.» I'm in a savings club to buy the fridge. - fiti fiti — fifty-fifty
«Lo pagamo' fiti fiti.» We'll pay for it fifty-fifty. - la malaria — being flat broke
«Desde ayer buscando el moro y nada, pura malaria.» Been looking for work since yesterday and nothing, dead broke. - la payola — payola
«Sin payola no suena esa canción.» Without payola that song doesn't get played. - liáo / liá — tangled up, in debt
«Toy liáo con el banco.» I'm tangled up with the bank. - ruyío — gnawed; dead broke
«Ese zapato ta ruyío.» That shoe is worn through.
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