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Spanish Word of the Day
Saturday, November 9, 2013

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asunto, noun
affair

We've already come across asunto meaning matter:

Es un asunto muy delicado.
It's a very delicate matter.

Like all the most common words in Spanish asunto has several meanings. Referring to an event that's in the news, it means affair:

El asunto Filesa
The Filesa affair

It can also be translated as affair in examples like the next one:

Siempre se entromete en mis asuntos.
He's always interfering in my affairs.

In Spain, asuntos exteriores are foreign affairs, so the government department that deals with them is:

El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
the Foreign Ministry, the State Department

In southern Latin America people use asunto informally in the phrase ¿A asunto de qué...? to mean why?

¿A asunto de qué lo llamaste?
What did you call him for?

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