Today's
WOTD is: "estatua" = statue
In Spanish, “estatua” is a feminine noun of Latin origin, meaning statue, as in:
- En el centro de la glorieta se erige una enorme estatua (in the centre of the roundabout stands a huge statue);
Some
Spanish expressions with the word “estatua”
are:
- Estatua ecuestre (horse and rider statue);
- Una estatua ecuestre de Carlos III (a statue of Charles III on horseback);
- Merecer alguien una estatua (to merit/ to be worthy of recognition or praise);
- Por lo que has hecho, te mereces una estatua (you really deserve praise/ recognition for what you have done);
- Quedarse hecho una estatua (to be left speechless/ flabbergasted/ frozen/ petrified);
- Pedro se quedó hecho una estatua cuando le contaron lo ocurrido (Pedro was speechless when told what had happened);
Love-Spanish.com
loves the word "estatua" in the YouTube clip:
Estatua Xuxa - Español Para Mica que le encanta!!!!
*NB
'Click' on the speaker icon next to the word “estatua”
in the link to hear the word pronounced.
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