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Spanish Word of the Day
Thursday, September 25, 2014

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vaso, noun
a glass

Sometimes Spanish uses two words to describe different aspects of something that English describes with one word. We’ve already seen that un vaso is an ordinary glass without a stem, as opposed to una copa, a glass with a stem, especially a wineglass.

Ni siquiera me ofrecieron un vaso de agua.
They didn’t even offer me a glass of water.

Sólo tomé una copa de vino.
I only had one glass of wine.

There is a Spanish idiom which uses the word vaso: ahogarse en un vaso de agua to get worked up over nothing, to make a mountain out of a molehill (word for word, ‘to drown in a glass of water’).

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