Today's WOTD is: 'pulmón' = lung
In Spanish, the noun 'pulmón' is a masculine noun of Latin origin, the main meaning of which is lung. The noun 'pulmón' is often used in its plural form, 'pulmones', meaning lungs.
In Spanish, a word related to the noun 'pulmón' is the describing word/ adjective 'pulmonar', which means appertaining/ related to the lung(s).
Some commonly used expressions containing the word 'pulmón' are:
- Cantar a pleno pulmón (to sing at the top of one's voice).
- Cantar a todo pulmón (to sing at the top of one's voice).
- Gritar a pleno pulmón (to shout at the top of one's voice).
- Gritar a todo pulmón (to shout at the top of one's voice).
- Pulmón de acero (iron lung).
- Respirar a pleno pulmón (to breath at full lung capacity/ to take deep breaths).
- Respirar a todo pulmón ( to breath at full lung capacity/ to take deep breaths).
- Tener buenos pulmones (to have a good pair of lungs).
Examples of the use of the word 'pulmón' are:
- Pedro está muy contento y canta a pleno pulmón (Pedro is very happy and is singing at the top of his voice).
- Pedro está muy contento y canta a todo pulmón (Pedro is very happy and is singing at the top of his voice).
- Para que la oigan, María grita a pleno pulmón (in order to make herself heard, María is shouting at the top of her voice).
- Para que la oigan, María grita a todo pulmón (in order to make herself heard, María is shouting at the top of her voice).
- El pulmón de acero contribuyó a un mejor tratamiento de la poliomelitis (the iron lung brought an improvement to the treatment of polio).
- En el campo donde el aire es puro, respiramos a pleno pulmón (in the countryside where the air is pure we breath taking deep breaths).
- En el campo donde el aire es puro , respiramos a todo pulmón (in the countryside where the air is pure we breath taking deep breaths) .
- Ese niño sí que tiene buenos pulmones (that child really does have a good pair of lungs).
- Las infecciones pulmonares pueden causar graves problemas sanitarios (lung infections can cause serious health problems).
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