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- "El polvo"
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Every little bit does! Its always good to pick up small vocab words, especially those used around the house! Thanks
My app only suggesyed Powder and as dust is a sort if powder pucked that word= correcto
Perhaps the Latin root is also the ancestor of the English word "pulverize." Because baby powder is pulverized rock, sawdust is pulverized wood, etc. All the examples people have commented about here seem to be along that line.
If this helps anyone else remember the word: "el polvo" comes from Latin "pulvis" (dust) which is related to the English words "pulverize" (literally "turn to dust") and "pollen" (originally from Latin "dust" or "powder").
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Does "polvo" mean ANY powder or just dust? It says "powder" under the definitions but the sentences where it is used keep translating it as "dust".
"Polvo para hornear" is baking powder, so polvo is not just dust. But my dust masks are also labeled "para polvo", so it appears to include sawdust and construction dust. English treats "powder" as deliberate and/or desirable and "dust" as accidental and/or undesirable, but Spanish doesn't appear to make that distinction.
"Dust" is dirt in English and "a dusting" (a dusting of snow, or icing sugar) seems to be used for positive thin layers of powder. Interestingly, the verb is its own antonym, meaning to remove dust as well as to add dust - "dust the furniture" v "dust the cake (with icing sugar").
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No solo en US, los hispanohablantes (yo diría a un 95%, por no decir todos, y en España el 99'9999) no hacemos distinción entre el sonido 'v' y el sonido 'b'.
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yep powder. powdered dirt equals dust. powdered sugar equals icing powder (which we dust our cakes with if we so desire.) meaning based on small size of loose particulate manufactured from a larger solid rather than the base substance
"Pyl'" in Russian means dust. I find quite a few words with same roots in Russian as in Spanish. Interesting.
A Camino is a car, and means "I walk". And another car is named Nova ("no va ", meaning it doesn't go).
Its slang, you would say something like "we had a dust" which means hooked up
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It doesn't mean that on its own... you need echar un before it. Warning: this expression is very vulgar in Spanish. You can't say it on TV or radio.
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Interesting. In German some people use 'to powder' to mean the same (though it's kind of a rude thing to say).
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What was that picture that introduced "polvo?" It looked like a bridge with sea foam, seagulls and a little snow (maybe) on the roof.
This was the word used for volcanic ash (or was when I was in Puebla, MX a few years ago when the volcano was acting up).
This is not related to the word but, is there a way to remove an unwanted language course?
I knew this because I'm allergic to the powder in gloves, so at work I have to grab boxes that say without powder, but I've also come to recognise sin polvo.
I've learned quite a bit from food industry labeling, because there's almost always spanish and English.
