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5 untranslateable words to use this December | A Coffee Break with Anabel

Coffee Break Spanish

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We’re back with another mini Coffee Break Spanish lesson to help you build natural, everyday vocabulary! ✨


In this short episode, Anabel introduces five useful Spanish words that don’t have a direct translation into English:

➡️ trasnochar

➡️ madrugar

➡️ estrenar

➡️ empalagar

➡️ friolero/a


Do you already know any of them? Listen to the episode to discover what they mean and how to use them naturally in conversation. 🗣️


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0:00.0

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Annabel and I'm very content to be in this episode with you. In this episode, I'm very happy to be in this episode with you. In this episode, I'm Thank you. words very special in Spanish, that are

0:21.6

bestante utiles

0:23.6

now that's

0:24.6

the period of festivo.

0:27.6

With the festivity season approaching us,

0:30.6

I'm bringing you some very useful words

0:33.6

that don't have a direct translation into English,

0:40.5

but they are too good not to know.

0:42.5

Let's have a closer look.

0:43.7

Let's have a closer look.

0:50.3

The first word is trachnotar,

0:59.9

and this is a verb, which means to stay up all night, whether studying, parting, or just losing track of time.

1:01.7

Tengo an example for you.

1:04.7

Ayer, transnoche, to terminar to envolver the regalos of the family.

1:11.2

Yesterday I stayed up all night to finish wrapping the presents for the family.

1:18.0

So here we can see Trash Noche in the preter tense.

1:21.6

I stayed up all night.

1:24.2

If you pay attention to the verb, Trash Nochar, you can see the noun noche in it.

1:32.9

Noche, remember, is a feminine noun and it means night.

1:36.7

So I hope this helps you to remember how to use this verb Trash Nochar.

1:42.4

Now, the next word is kind of the opposite to Trashnotchar.

1:49.2

It is madrugar.

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