Dominican Spanish words: opinion

• allá tú — suit yourself
  «Si no quieres ir, allá tú.» If you don't want to go, suit yourself.
• bacano / vacano — awesome, cool
  «Ese concierto tuvo bacano.» That concert was awesome.
• chopo / chopa — tacky, low-class
  «Ese carro con esas luces está chopo.» That car with those lights is tacky.
• el disparate — nonsense, junk
  «Eso que tú dice' e' un disparate.» What you're saying is nonsense.
• el lío — trouble, a mess
  «Comida buena, bebida fría y cero lío.» Good food, cold drinks and zero trouble.
• jévi — cool, nice
  «Ese carro ta jévi.» That car is cool.
• ni loco — not a chance
  «Yo ahí no vuelvo ni loco.» I'm not going back there, not a chance.
• tremendo / tremenda — huge, quite a...
  «Tremenda comida. / Tremendo lío.» Amazing food. / What a mess.
• chulo / chula — cute, nice
  «Qué chula esa camisa.» That shirt is really nice.
• dar brega — to be a hassle
  «Ese trabajo me dio mucha brega.» That job was a real hassle.
• eso es así — that's just how it is
  «Aquí hay que esperar. Eso es así.» You have to wait here. That's just how it is.
• está claro — it's clear
  «Está claro que así no funciona.» It's clear that it doesn't work this way.
• guallarse — to mess up, to blow it
  «Me guallé en el examen.» I blew the exam.
• quedao / quedá — behind the times; left on the shelf
  «Tú ta quedao, eso ya nadie lo usa.» You're behind the times, nobody uses that anymore.
• quemarse — to fail; to be exposed
  «Me quemé en el examen.» I failed the exam.
• ser una vaina — to be a hassle
  «Eso es una vaina, mejor lo dejamos.» That's a hassle, let's drop it.
• debaratáo — falling apart
  «Ese carro ta debaratáo.» That car is falling apart.
• desabrío / desabría — bland, dull
  «Esa comida ta desabría.» That food is bland.
• dársela a alguien — to give someone credit
  «Yo se la doy a María, ella cocina muy bien.» I give it to María, she cooks very well.
• dársela en — to fancy oneself as
  «Martín se la da en filósofo, siempre habla de figuras griegas.» Martín fancies himself a philosopher, he's always talking about Greek figures.
• eso ta serio — that is rough / that is great
  «Eso ta serio, mi helmano.» Things are tough right now.
• estar caliente — to be angry; to be hot right now
  «Está caliente conmigo. / Ese sitio está caliente.» He's mad at me. / That place is hot right now.
• estar duro — to be really good at; to be tough
  «Ese muchacho está duro en matemáticas. / La cosa está dura.» That kid is really good at math. / Things are tough.
• estar flojo — to be weak at something
  «Ando flojo en gramática.» I'm weak on grammar.
• igualitico / igualitica — exactly the same
  «Ese Carlos e' igualitico a un primo mío.» That Carlos is exactly like a cousin of mine.
• lucirse — to shine, to outdo yourself
  «Guau, María, te la lucite con tu traje, tá muy bonito.»
• macar — to chew; to blow it
  «Diablo, la macate con to' lo' diente'.» Man, you really blew that one.
• maltramáo — put together wrong
  «El tipo se ve maltramáo, como si se hubiera caído de chiquito.» The guy looks put together wrong, like he fell as a kid.
• pasáo / pasá — out of line
  «Nicol ta pasá, me dijo que cuide a mi sobrino un fin de semana.» Nicol is out of line, she told me to watch my nephew for a whole weekend.
• pegar — to match, to go together
  «Esta blusa no pega con ese pantalón.» This blouse doesn't go with those pants.
• tolloso / tollosa — solid, well put together
  «Ese profesor e' tolloso.» That teacher is solid.
• arregoso — at risk that something happens, liable to
  «Cruza la calle sin mirar, arregoso a que un carro lo atropelle.» He crosses the street without looking, at risk of a car running him over.
• el tiesto — a piece of junk
  «Ese carro e' un tiesto.» That car is a piece of junk.
• malafé — bad-faith, mean-spirited
  «Yo no confío en gente de malafé así.» I don't trust people that mean-spirited.
• maldaóso / maldaósa — mischievous, spiteful
  «Y también e' maldaóso, le gusta hacerle maldad a la gente.» And he's spiteful too, he likes doing people wrong.
• pelú — hairy; tough to get
  «Ta pelú conseguir asiento pa' ese concierto.» It's tough to get a seat for that concert.
• a la brigandina — any old way, sloppily
  «Ese ingeniero construyó esa casa a la brigandina.» That engineer built that house any old way.
• el gatadero — a stinking dump
  «Ese colmado e' tremendo gatadero.» That colmado is a real dump.

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