embarazado
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /embaɾaˈθado/ [ẽm.ba.ɾaˈθa.ð̞o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /embaɾaˈsado/ [ẽm.ba.ɾaˈsa.ð̞o]
Adjective
embarazado (feminine embarazada, masculine plural embarazados, feminine plural embarazadas)
- (usually in the feminine form) pregnant
- Synonyms: encinto, preñado
- El caballito de mar macho es el único animal que queda embarazado.
- The seahorse is the only male animal that gets pregnant.
- Parece ser que la increíble trama de la película “Junior” (1994), donde Arnold Schwarzenegger protagoniza, por amor, a un hombre embarazado, es también increíblemente, una realidad.
- It seems that the unbelievable plot of the movie "Junior" (1994), in which Arnold Schwarzenegger stars, for the love of God, as a pregnant man, is actually a real thing that happened.
Usage notes
For obvious reasons, this adjective is far more commonly found in the feminine form embarazada. However, by convention, Spanish dictionaries give the masculine form of adjectives as the base form, hence it appears as such in this dictionary.
Verb
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- Template:es-verb form of/participle embarazar.
- Javier ha embarazado a María
- Javier has impregnated María.
- Ningún miembro de la familia está embarazado
- No member of the family is pregnant.
Usage notes
- Embarazado is a false friend, and does not mean “embarrassed”. The word for “embarrassed” in Spanish is avergonzado (or avergonzada in the feminine form)