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Gizmonster | 19:40 Sun 02nd Jun 2019 | ChatterBank

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..... so in my continuing quest to learn Spanish, I learnt something new today:

The translation for, "a wife" is "una esposa"

.... and the translation for, "a handcuff" is "una esposa"

.... I'm sorry, but I can't stop giggling about this :P

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jno

I expect they're related but the Google translation is giving me esposar for handcuff, esposa for wife.

Gizmonster

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//// the Google translation is giving me esposar for handcuff, ////

Esposar is the verb, "to handcuff". Type in "a handcuff" and see what that brings up :)

Tilly2

I'm intrigued to know why you looked up 'wife' and then 'handcuff'.

Was it just a random search?

JimF

Not really. Spanish, like many European languages, uses the same word for 'woman' as 'wife', so 'my wife' in Spanish is 'mi mujer'. Cf:

ma femme
meine Frau

etc.

Gizmonster

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//// I'm intrigued to know why you looked up 'wife' and then 'handcuff'.

Was it just a random search? ////

I went to my dad's earlier and my uncle was there, who's fluent in Spanish. We got talking about Spanish, as he knows I'm currently learning Spanish and he randomly through this info at me :)

Barmaid

That's brilliant. I may have just found the closing words to my wedding speech.

gness

Giz.....give Barmaid the Spanish for.....pink and furry please.... :-)

Gizmonster

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//// That's brilliant. I may have just found the closing words to my wedding speech. ////

.... go on .... do it :)

///////// Not really. Spanish, like many European languages, uses the same word for 'woman' as 'wife', so 'my wife' in Spanish is 'mi mujer' ////////

I see where you're coming from but, just like in English, there is more than one word to describe certain nouns and una esposa is a wife (just like un esposo is a husband ..... also marido/a translate as husband/wife).

JimF

Of course, but it sounds just as weird in Spanish to refer to your wife as your 'esposa' as it does in English to refer to her as your 'spouse'.

Good explanation here: https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/188837/-mi-mujer-vs-mi-esposa-