Today's WOTD is: "descanso" = rest
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In
Spanish, “descanso”
is a masculine noun of Latin origin, which means rest.
The noun “descanso”
is also often used to refer to:
- The half time interval in sports games, theatre performances and other such like events.
- A landing or turning point on stairs.
Related
words “descansado”/
“descansada”
may be used as describing words, meaning rested/
restful/ relaxed/ easy.
A
related Spanish action word/ verb is “descansar”,
which means to
rest/
to
have a rest
Some
commonly used expressions with the word “descanso”
or related are:
- Área de descanso (rest area- roadside);
- Buenas noches y que descanse (good night and have a good rest- more formal expression);
- Buenas noches y que descanses (good night and have a good rest- less formal expression);
- Cerrado por descanso semanal (closed for weekly day of rest);
- Descanse en paz - DEP (Rest in peace – RIP);
- ¡Descansen! (at ease!- command to troops on parade);
- Día de descanso (rest day/day off work);
- En posición de descanso (standing at ease- military);
- Merecido descanso (well earned/ deserved rest);
- Sin descanso (without a break/ tirelessly);
- Tomar un descanso (to take a break);
- Una semana de descanso (a week of rest/ off work);
- Unos días de descanso (a few days rest/ off work);
- Zona de descanso (rest area- roadside);
Some
examples of the use of the word "descanso"
or related are:
- En el descanso fuimos a tomar una cerveza (at the interval, we went for a beer);
- Ese bar está cerrdado por descanso semanal (that bar is closed today for its weekly day of rest);
- Pararemos para comer algo en una área de descanso (we'll stop for something to eat in a rest area);
- Grabada en el centro de la lápida se veía la inscripción DEP – Descanse En Paz (scored in the centre of the tombstone the inscription RIP – Rest In Peace was visible);
- Hoy es mi día de descanso (today is my day off work);
- La tropa estaba en posición de descanso (the troops were standing at ease);
- Estamos disfrutando de un merecido descanso (we are enjoying a well earned rest);
- ¿Para esto trabajamos sin descanso? (is this what we worked tirelessly for?);
- Me voy a tomar un descaso (I am going to have a rest);
- Esa semana de descanso nos la merecemos (we deserve that week off work);
- Unos días de descanso nos los merecemos (we deserve a few days off work);
- Pararemos para comer algo en una zona de descanso (we'll stop for something to eat in a rest area);
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