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Spanish words that start with B

In this list you can find some common words in Spanish that start with the second letter of the alphabet, B.
All the words on this list are sustantivos, also called nombres (both words mean “nouns”). These are nouns of common objects, people, feelings or places. The main idea of this post series is to provide a list of mixed nouns that start with a specific letter of the alphabet and that are commonly used in the Spanish language.

Along with all these nouns, you will see a picture, a simple definition and a phrase example, both in Spanish. Take into account that some of the words may have more than one meaning, but to make this list not too long and easier for basic level students, if there is more than one meaning, it is only explained the most common one.

Boca

Definition: parte del cuerpo en la cara que sirve para comer y beber.
Example: María no puede comer porque tiene una herida en la boca.

Balón

Definition: pelota llena de aire que se utiliza para jugar o practicar algunos deportes.
Example: Los niños juegan con el balón en el parque.

Bebé

Definition: ser humano con una edad muy corta.
Example: El bebé sonríe al escuchar a sus padres.

Bolsa

Definition: objeto hueco que sirve para transportar alimentos u objetos. Suele estar hecha de papel o de plástico.
Example: Esta bolsa pesa mucho porque dentro hay naranjas.

Bolso

Definition: objeto hueco que se utiliza para llevar objetos personales. Puede estar hecho de plástico, de tela, de cuero, etc.
Example: En mi bolso llevo la cartera, las llaves y unas gafas de sol.

Bolsillo

Definition: pequeño hueco que hay en algunas prendas y objetos (como bolsos) y que sirve para guardar cosas.
Example: Las llaves del coche están en el bolsillo de mi pantalón.

Bocadillo

Definition: pan abierto por la mitad que se come junto a algún embutido, vegetal, carne, queso, etc.
Example: Este bocadillo de tomate, jamón y queso está delicioso.

Beso

Definition: es el contacto de los labios con una persona o cosa como símbolo de amor o afecto.
Example: Nos despedimos con un beso y un abrazo.

Borrador

Definition: objeto que sirve para borrar lo escrito en lápiz en un papel.
Example: Ella lleva en su estuche un lápiz, un bolígrafo, un borrador y varios lápices de colores.

Boda

Definition: ceremonia y celebración por la unión de dos personas como matrimonio.
Example: La boda fue hermosa. Lo pasamos muy bien.

Bigote

Definition: pelo que nace sobre el labio superior.
Example: Sebastián es moreno, tiene los ojos verdes y lleva bigote.

Brazo

Definition: parte del cuerpo que va desde el hombro hasta la mano.
Example: Él tuvo un accidente y se rompió el brazo, pero ya está recuperado.

Words that start with an A in Spanish

In this post you can find some words in Spanish that start with the first letter of the alphabet, A.
All the words on this list are nouns, in Spanish called sustantivos or nombres. These are nouns of common things, people, feelings or places. The main idea is to provide a list of mixed nouns that are commonly used in the language.
Along with all these nouns, you will see a picture of the concept represented by the noun and also a simplified definition in Spanish and a phrase on which that noun is used.

Alcachofa

Definition: planta comestible de color verde que tiene hojas.
Example: Voy a comprar un kilo de alcachofas en el mercado.

Aeropuerto

Definition: lugar donde los aviones despegan y aterrizan.
Example: Todos los días salen vuelos a Montevideo desde el Aeropuerto de Barcelona.

Anillo

Definition: aro que se pone en el dedo como adorno o de forma simbólica.
Example: Él regaló a Patricia un anillo de oro con diamantes.

Amor

Definition: sentimiento de afecto hacia una persona, animal o cosa.
Example: Ellos sienten un gran amor por su hijo.

Avión

Definition: medio de transporte aéreo.
Example: Me gusta viajar en avión porque es un medio de transporte rápido.

Abeja

Definition: insecto volador de color pardo y negro.
Example: Las abejas son muy importantes para el medio ambiente.

Ajo

Definition: planta comestible con sabor y olor intensos. Tiene varias piezas y suele ser de color blanco y morado.
Example: Me encanta añadir ajo a mis comidas.

Agua

Definition: líquido sin sabor, olor ni color que se encuentra en la naturaleza (ríos, mares, etc.) y en los seres vivos.
Example: Tengo sed; voy a beber agua.

Albornoz

Definition: prenda hecha con tela de toalla que se usa para salir del baño.

Example: Este albornoz blanco es muy suave.

Almohada

Definition: objeto que sirve para apoyar la cabeza al dormir.
Example: Ayer compré una nueva almohada para mi cama.

Abrigo

Definition: prenda de vestir que se utiliza para protegerse del frío.
Example: Este abrigo es muy elegante.

Armario

Definition: mueble cerrado con puertas que se utiliza para guardar ropa y otros objetos.
Example: En este armario guardo todos mis abrigos y pantalones.

The Spanish Alphabet

The Spanish alphabet has 27 letters.

The first column, Letter, shows the alphabet letter in capital and small letters. The second column is the name of the letter in Spanish. The following column, the third one, it is about the pronunciation of the name of these letters with audio. The last column on this table includes different examples of words that contain the sound of the letter on the same row. You can hear the pronunciation of some of those examples on the video after this table.

Letter	Letter name	Examples
A, a	a	amor, manzana
B, b	be	burro, Barcelona, jabón
C, c	ce	camiseta, cepillo, ciruela, coche, cuello
D, d	de	dedo, Madrid
E, e	e	fresa, Ecuador, México, estrella
F, f	efe	jirafa, Francia, frío
G, g	ge	gato, gente, girasol, paraguas, gorra
H, h	hache	hospital, zanahoria
I, i	i	isla, delfín, limón
J, j	jota	Japón, rojo, caja
K, k	ka	kilo, kiwi, kiosko
L, l	ele	sol, lazo, lobo, televisor
M, m	eme	mariposa, mesa, camiseta
N, n	ene	nariz, mano, cantante
Ñ, ñ	eñe	España, año, mañana
O, o	o	oso, tomate, perro
P, p	pe	patata, pingüino, pimiento, mapa
Q, q	cu	queso, paquete, bosque
R, r	erre	ratón, cara, fresa
S, s	ese	sofá, casa, mesa
T, t	te	gato, tomate, tortuga
U, u	u	uvas, mundo, puerta
V, v	uve	vuelo, vida, velocidad, vitamina
W, w	uve doble	sándwich, Washington
X, x	equis	xilófono, éxito
Y, y	i griega / ye	yegua, mayonesa, mayo
Z, z	zeta	zumo, taza, cazuela

Exercises related to the Spanish alphabet

Test about the Spanish alphabet and basic spelling

Test: Spanish alphabet and basic spelling

Listen and write the words you hear in Spanish

The Alphabet Snake in Spanish – Alphabet Online Game

Spanish Word Search Puzzle about Animals

Find in this online word search the six animals in Spanish that are on the pictures. You can click the “Words” button to see the words you have to find along with the pictures.

To solve a word, click on the first and the last character of the word and it will be highlighted.

If you see a play symbol below, click on it to see the game.

Spanish Word Search Puzzle about the Parts of the Body

If you want to practice vocabulary related to the body, this Spanish Word Search Puzzle about the Parts of the Body is for you!

If you see a play symbol below, click on it to see the game.

Spanish Word Search Puzzle about Fruits

Find six hidden words in this wordsearch, or sopa de letras in Spanish, that refer to the fruits in Spanish that you can see in the pictures. If you are not sure about the words you must look for, click on the “Words” button to see the words below the different pictures. The letters on this wordsearch can be read vertically, horizontally and diagonally.

If you see a play symbol below, click on it to see the game.

Spanish Word Search Puzzle about Clothes

Find in this word search six hidden words related to clothes and accessories in Spanish. To solve a word, click on the first and the last character of the word and it will be highlighted.

If you see a play symbol below, click on it to see the game.

How to say “it hurts” in Spanish

Imagine you go one day to Spain in your holidays and you eat too much paella and drink too much sangría… or you go to Mexico and eat too many tacos… :/ and then, all of a sudden, a terrible stomach pain appears. You need to go to a nearby drugstore or hospital in order to get some pills and feel better, but before getting the pills you need to explain to the pharmacist or doctor what hurts you. Then, you remember that lesson in that random but awesome website that explained how to say “it hurts” in Spanish and how to talk about pain and sickness in this language. And thanks to that lesson, you manage to get the proper medication and continue happy and healthy with your vacation days 🙂
Well, with this situation what I was trying to say is that all this stuff and vocabulary may be very useful for you one day, so please, take note!

The basic structure to say what hurts you in Spanish it is built with the verb doler, and it is the following:
me duele(n) + definite article + body part.

For example, if you have a headache, you would say: me duele la cabeza.

And if your eyes hurt, you would say: me duelen los ojos.

But, how we do know if we have to use duele or duelen? Well, think about the body part that hurts you. Is it a single part, like the head? Or it is more than one part, like the eyes, the teeth or the legs?
If it is a single part, use the verb form duele, because this is the 3rd singular person of the verb doler. And if two or more body parts hurt you, use the form duelen, which is the 3rd plural person of that verb.

Colours in Spanish

We are going to see the colours, in Spanish los colores. See this colorful panel below. If you click on the colour, you will see a “label” with the name of the colour and at the same time you will hear the Spanish pronunciation of that name.

As you have seen, these colours are:

rojo – red
naranja – orange
amarillo – yellow
verde – green
azul – blue
rosa – pink
morado – purple
marrón – brown
negro – black
blanco – white
gris – grey/gray

And… how do we say that a colour is dark or light?

Well, if you want to say that a colour is dark, follow this structure: name of the colour + oscuro
And if you want to say that a colour is light, follow the same structure: name of the colour + claro

For example, the colour dark blue in Spanish is azul oscuro. You can see that we use the adjective oscuro after the name of the colour. And to say light blue, we use the adjective claro after the name of the colour, azul claro. It’s easy, isn’t it? 😉

How to talk about the weather in Spanish

Talking about the weather is a common topic in conversations, specially when we don’t know what to talk about, isn’t it?

So knowing how to talk about the weather in Spanish is interesting and helpful, because it’s a great topic for breaking the ice (‘romper el hielo’ in Spanish).

How to ask the weather in Spanish

To ask How’s the weather?/What’s the weather like? in Spanish, we say: ¿Qué tiempo hace?

If we want to ask how’s the weather in a specific city, country… we add the preposition “en” and the name of the place. For example: ¿Qué tiempo hace en Valencia?

So, how would you say What’s the weather like in Barcelona?
Drag and drop the words below and make the question! 😀 Then click on “Comprobar” and see if your question is correct or not.

Spanish vocabulary related to the weather

See on each tab phrases, verbs, nouns and adjectives related to the weather in Spanish and some advice about writing phrases related to this topic.

Phrases & Idioms ☀️

Verbs 🌈

Nouns and adjectives ❄️

Phrases & Idioms ☀️

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Nouns and adjectives ❄️

Phrases about the weather in Spanish: listen to some examples

Hear some examples of useful phrases related to the weather in Spanish by clicking each drawing.

How to write about the weather in Spanish: basic structures

There are some general structures that you may follow when writing sentences in Spanish related to weather. We are going to see four different structures:

How to describe the current and general weather conditions. In most cases we will use a form of the verb hacer (hace) + noun; the verb “hacer” will be in its impersonal form, which is the 3rd person in singular. For example: hace + frío/calor/viento.
How to say the current temperature in Spanish. In this case we have to use the 3rd person in singular of the verb HABER, which is hay. The structure is hay + number of degrees + grados. For example, we want to say the current temperature in Lime (Peru), we would say: Hay 23 grados en Lima.
How to say that a specific weather condition is happening right now. In Spanish, if we want to say that something is happening right now, we use the verb estar + following verb in gerundio. This is the same in English, because we say “it is snowing”, using the verb to be + the following verb in gerund. In Spanish we would say: Está nevando.
How to say that a specific weather condition is going to happen imminently or in the near future. For this case we use the 3rd person in singular of the verb IR (va) + preposition a + weather verb in infinitive. If it is going to rain, in Spanish we say va a llover.

As you have seen, talking about the weather in Spanish is simple, specially if you talk English, since the sentence structures have many similarities in both languages. However, to learn all the phrases, verbs, adjetives… related to the weather in Spanish, it is highly recommended to practise with exercises. This way, the structures are learned not simply by memorizing them, but by acquiring them in a meaningful context. For this reason, we encourage you to do all the following exercises, step by step, and with this page open in order to be able to solve your doubts while you are doing them.

After this list of exercises, you can find a link to download the “Talking about weather in Spanish” booklet, on which you will find a summary of this post, mind maps and additional worksheets. It is free and it does not require a subscription or anything like that.