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Dialect

Venezuelan Spanish
Español venezolano
Native to	Venezuela
Native speakers	29,794,000 in Venezuela, all users (2014)[ane] L1 users: 29,100,000 (2013) L2 users: 694,000 (2013)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Ibero-Romance Due west Iberian Spanish Venezuelan Castilian
Dialects	Amazonian Llanero Andino Western Eastern Isleño Costeño Zuliano/Maracucho Primal Oriental
Writing organization	Latin (Castilian alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Venezuela
Regulated past	Academia Venezolana de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-i	es
ISO 639-two	spa[two]
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	es-VE
Kinds of spanish spoken in Venezuela.
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Venezuelan Castilian ( castellano venezolano or español venezolano ) refers to the Castilian spoken in Venezuela.

Spanish was introduced in Venezuela past colonists. Nearly of them were from Galicia, Basque Country, Andalusia, or the Canary Islands.^[iii] The concluding has been the most cardinal influence on modernistic Venezuelan Castilian, and Canarian and Venezuelan accents may even be indistinguishable to other Spanish-speakers.

Italian and Portuguese immigrants from the late 19th and the early on 20th century take likewise had an influence; they influenced vocabulary and its accent, given its slight sing-songy intonation, similar Rioplatense Spanish. High high german settlers also left an influence when Venezuela was contracted equally a concession by the Male monarch of Kingdom of spain to the High german language Welser banking family (Klein-Venedig, 1528–1546).

The Spaniards additionally brought African slaves, which is the origin of expressions such as chévere ("first-class"), which comes from Yoruba ché egberi . Other non-Romance words came from ethnic languages, such as guayoyo (a blazon of coffee) and caraota (blackness edible bean).

Features [edit]

• Venezuelan Spanish sometimes shortens words, such as para ("for") to pa'. In addition, /d/ between vowels is sometimes dropped (elision): helado ("ice cream") becomes [eˈlao]. Originally from southern Spain and the Canary Islands, those traits are common to many other Spanish variations and in the Caribbean.
• Some other common characteristic is the debuccalization of syllable-last /southward/, whereby adiós ("cheerio") becomes [aˈðjoh] and este ("eastward") becomes [ˈeht̪e]. Information technology is mutual to about coastal areas in America, the Canary Islands, and the southern half of Spain.
• Syllable-final /north/ undergoes velarisation, or /n/ undergoes assimilation: ambientación /aNbi̯eNtaˈsi̯oN/ ("temper") becomes [ãŋbjẽŋt̪aˈsjõŋ] or [ãmbjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõŋ].
• Besides like most other American versions of Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish has yeísmo (the merger of /ʎ/ and /ʝ/) and seseo (/θ/ and /s/ are merged). That is, calló ("s/he became silent") and cayó ("s/he roughshod") are homophones, and casa ("business firm") is homophonous with caza ("chase"). Seseo is mutual to all of America, the Canary Islands, and southern Kingdom of spain, and yeísmo is prevalent in near Spanish dialects.
• The phoneme /x/ is realized equally glottal [h] in the Venezuelan Caribbean, similar in Republic of el salvador, Republic of honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Spanish Caribbean area islands, Canary Islands, and southern Spain and sometimes in Ecuador, Republic of peru, Republic of chile, and Argentina.
• A feature common to Spanish in Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Commonwealth, Republic of cuba, and Costa rica is the employ of the diminutive -ico and -ica, instead of the standard -ito and -ita in words with -t in the concluding syllable: rata ("rat") becomes ratica ("little rat"). Another noteworthy diminutive is "manito," instead of the more than mutual "manita."
• The 2d-person singular informal pronoun is commonly tú, as in virtually of the residual of Latin America and in Spain. That is referred to as tuteo. Nonetheless, in Zulia and some parts of Falcón and Trujillo, information technology is common to discover voseo, the use of vos instead of tú. That miracle is nowadays in many other Latin American variations (notably Primal American Castilian and Rioplatense), just Zulian voseo is diptongado: conjugation preserves the diphthongs of the historical vos conjugation, which have had monophthongization in Rioplatense. The Zulian forms are thus the aforementioned equally those in Espana for the second-person plural vosotros): instead of tú eres, tú estás, Zulian has vos sois, vos estáis (compare with the plural forms in Spain vosotros sois, vosotros estáis, and with Rioplatense forms, vos sos, vos estás). Some other exception to tuteo in Venezuela is the use of the 2nd-person singular formal pronoun usted interchangeably with tú in informal speech, unique to u.s.a. of Mérida, Táchira and Trujillo.^[4] As in near of the residue of the Americas, the only plural grade of the 2nd person is ustedes.
• The word vaina is used with a diversity of meanings (such as "shame," "matter or topic," or "pity") and is often an interjection or a nonsensical filler, notwithstanding is considered a rude discussion and should exist avoided in formal conversation.
• Venezuelan Spanish has a lot of Italianisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and Anglicisms.

Regional variations [edit]

In that location are several subdialects of Venezuelan Spanish:

• The Andean dialect, particularly in the land of Táchira, near the Colombian border, is characterized by a nonaspirated pronunciation of 'due south', and use of usted instead of tú fifty-fifty in breezy contexts. Some other variant, in the states of Mérida and Trujillo, however uses usted instead of tú , only has the aspirated pronunciation of /s/ as a voiceless alveolar retracted sibilant [s̺], as well called apico-alveolar or grave, between [southward] and [ʃ]. That phonetic trait, unique in the Americas, is from the large number of northern Castilian settlers in Andean Venezuela.
• The Primal dialect, a feature marked accent whose use is very common in cities similar Caracas, La Guaira, Los Teques, Maracay and Valencia. This dialect is the basis of standard Castilian of Venezuela.
• The Guaro or Larense dialect, spoken initially in Barquisimeto, Cabudare, El Tocuyo and Quíbor, spread throughout the country of Lara and other Central-Western states. In it, the older Spanish exact inflections -ades, -edes, -odes have become -ás, -és, and -ós:" ^[v] "vos cantáis", "vos coméis", "vos sois."
• The Llanero (plainman) dialect is spoken in the Venezuelan plains. Ane of its characteristics is a considerable ancient lexicon, a production of the fusion of both languages.
• The Margaritan dialect (oriental), spoken in Isla Margarita and the northeast of mainland Venezuela. The Margaritan dialect sometimes has an interdental for pre-vowel 'due due south', and uses a strong 'r' instead of '50' for nearly words.

The Venezuelan dialect influences Papiamento, the language spoken and taught most in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao.

• The Zulian in the northwest of the state, also called maracucho or marabino, uses voseo.

Lexical influences [edit]

Native influence [edit]

Venezuelan Spanish, like that of the residue of Spanish America and Spanish in general, has taken many words from indigenous languages.

Some examples:

• Arepa (from cariban).
• Auyama (from Arawakan).
• Budare (from cariban).
• Casabe (from cariban).
• Chinchorro (from chaima).
• Conuco (from taíno).
• Ocumo (from Arawakan).
• Onoto (from anoto, discussion from tamanaku).
• Totuma (from chaima)

Mutual words [edit]

Sign written in European Spanish "Dejad que los niños vengan a mi" (Permit the children come to me) Hogar Clínica San Rafael, Zulia, Venezuela

• A mamar que llegó Tío Rico. = 5. Swallow up, it's your lucky day (lit: "Tío Rico -a very pop water ice cream brand- has arrived")
• Achantado(a) = adj. (or achanta'o/achantá) A person of deadening thought or wearisome reasoning. Someone passive, or defective seduction skills.
• Achicopalarse = v. To go distressing or depressed.
• Agarrado(a) = adj. Selfish. Run into pichirre.
• Agüevoneado(a) = adj. (or agüevonea'o/agüevonea'a). To exist thinking slowly or with poor reasoning, beingness a sucker. "Ando agüevonia'o" (I didn't go that / I feel similar a sucker). Profane.
• Alborotado(a) = adj. To exist excited or in a frenzy.
• Alzado(a) = adj. (or alza'o/alzá) Rebellious, haughty, insurgent. Lit. Lifted, raised.
• Amapuche = north. A passionate demonstration of affection. A warm hug.
• Amuñuñar = v. To tightly even so disorderly put things together.
• Apapacho = northward. A hug.
• Arepa = due north. Armpit sweat marks. In baseball it likewise means a score of goose egg. Lit. Arepa.
• Arrapado = adj. Sexually angry (profane).
• Arrecharse = v. To get aroused (profane).
• Arrecho(a) = adj. Top attribute for an object or country of affairs, namely extremely good, bad or difficult (profane). In that location are differences if someone is arrecho(a) for a finite period of time (to exist aroused) or if someone is arrecho(a) all the time (has a difficult grapheme or personality). On the other hand, if something is arrecho, data technology is very skillful. "Qué arrecha estuvo la fiesta" (the party was awesome). It also has a superlative, "arrechísimo" (extremely practiced, bad or angry, depending on the context).
• Arrecochinar = v. To get together people hell-raising in a small infinite.
• Arrocear = v. To plough up at a political party without beingness invited.
• Arrocero(a) = due northward. Party crasher.
• Asaltacunas = northward. Someone who likes to engagement or have sexual practice activity with people who are significantly younger (+vi years historic menstruation difference. May include people nether legal age). Like terms in English language would exist "Manther" (for men) or "Cougar (for women). Lit. "Cradle-robber" or "craddle-snatcher".
• Asaltamecedoras = north. Reverse of the term higher up. Lit. "Rocker-robber" or "rocker-snatcher" (referring to a Rocking chair)
• Baba = n. A infant/young alligator, caiman, or crocodile. Lit. Saliva.
• Baboso(a) = northward. A person who flirts inappropriately.
• Bachaco = n. A blond or redhead mulatto. Lit. Leafcutter ant.
• Bajarse de la mula = exp. To pay for something. To exist demanded for money. To be robbed. Lit. "To get off the mule".
• Bájate de esa mata e' coco = exp. "Become your head out of the clouds". To get real. To focus and stop daydreaming. Lit. "Go off that coconut tree."
• Bala fría = n. Junk nutrient. A quick snack. Lit. "Cold bullet".
• Balurdo(a) = adj. or north. (from French Balourd) An bad-mannered or ridiculous person. A depression-class person or behavior. Run into chimbo
• Barrio = n. Poor neighborhood. Ofttimes built upwards on hillsides, they are a singled-out and noticeable feature of the mural in large cities in Venezuela.
• Barquilla = n. Ice cream cone.
• Becerro(a) = due n. A goofy person. A moron (insult). Lit. Calf (fauna). Case: "Sí eres becerro" = Y'all're such a moron.
• Beta = n. A problematic or otherwise interesting situation. For example: "When we were at the political party se armó un beta and the police arrived".
• Bicha = adj. A girl/adult female of bitchy beliefs, foxy lady, vixen. Used equally a noun, it tin also mean a firearm, more often than not a pistol.
• Birra = due north. Beer.
• Biyuyo = north. Coin. Come across churupo and real.
• Bochinche = n. A gathering or noisy party. Disorder, chaos, merely usually in a funny way. Run across jodedera.
• Boleta = adj. To be indiscreet. Example: "No seas boleta" = Don't be indiscreet. Used when someone indiscreetly looks at another person, or imprudently listens to someone else'south conversation. Likewise means a course, mark, qualification. A clarification for some people who dress and talk in a marginal fashion. Run across Tuki, Tierrúo. Lit. Ticket, note.

Arepa is a typical Venezuelan dish

• Bolo = n. A single unit of measurement of Venezuelan currency. Like to calling the U.S. Dollar a "cadet."
• Bolsa = northward. (or Bolsiclón) A moron. Lit. Bag.
• Broma = n. A thing. Case: "Sólo agarra esa broma y vámonos" = Merely accept that thing and permit's go. Likewise, it tin can be used every bit a synonym (and a less "harsh" version) for "vaina" (Come across vaina). Lit. Joke.
• Bucear = v. To ogle discreetly. To peep furtively. Lit. To skin swoop.
• Bululú = n. A fuss. A place in which there is a noisy oversupply, and not always partying.
• Burda = adv. or adj. (peak) Very much. Example: "Caminamos burda" = We walked a lot. "Ella es burda de linda" = She'south very pretty.
• Buzo = n. Peeper. Lit. Diver. Meet bucear.
• Cachapera = due north. A lesbian (debasing). Lit. Adult female who makes cachapas.
• Cacharro/a = n. Quondam, worn out vehicle. A slice of junk.
• Cachicamo = north. Armadillo.
• Cachúo(a) = adj. (or cachudo(a)) Someone who has been cheated on by his partner. In Zulia, it ways "horny" instead. (profane). Lit. With horns (See cuckold.)
• Cacri = n. A mongrel (that usually is a stray dog as well). The term is a mix between "callejero" (devious) and "criollo" (meet criollo) and derives from the fact that at that identify are a lot of stray dogs and mixed-brood dogs in Venezuela.
• Caerse a palos = exp. To engage in heavy drinking. To get drunk. To exist beaten up. Lit. "To autumn with sticks". See "palos" and "rumba de palos".
• Cagón(a) = adj. Coward or fearful person (profane). Lit. Shitter.
• Calarse = 5. To tolerate something bad, to put upwardly with something.
• Calientahuevo = adj. (or calientagüevo) A person (ordinarily female person) that insinuates sexual interest but at the end doesn't practice anything (profane).
• Caligüeva = northward. Lethargy, boredom (mildly profane).
• Cambur = n. A well remunerated task in regime. Lit. Banana.
• Cambur y peo = A person that, normally pretending to know/exist familiar with something, does not even try to reach his/her promises, a talker. Instance: "¡Eres puro cambur y peo!". A plan/prospect that was meant to be taken seriously is never made reality (profane). Lit. "Banana and fart".
• Caña = north. Alcohol, an alcoholic drink. Also, it's frequently referred as "curda".
• Carajo(a) = north. A person (profane). Lit. Crow's nest.
• Carajazo = n. See coñazo (profane).
• Carajito(a) = north. A child (sometimes pejorative. Profane). Diminutive of "carajo".
• Caraotas = due north. Beans. In Venezuela, caraotas are black by default. Should beans be of a dissimilar color, the name of the colour must exist used. Case: "Caraotas blancas" = white beans, "Caraotas rojas" = ruddy beans.
• Cartuchera = north. A pencil instance. Lit. "Cartridge belt" or "cartridge box".
• Catire(a) = adj. or due north. Generic for a beer. Likewise a nickname for the Sun. Derived from the literal significant of catire/catira every scrap blond man/blonde woman.
• Caucho(s) = due north. Generic for a vehicle tire or tires. Lit. Natural rubber.
• Cazón = north. Young shark. Lit. School shark.
• Chalequeo = n. Persistent taunt, mockery or bullying.
• Chalequear = five. To (continuously) mock or taunt someone for an indefinite menstruation of time.
• Chamo(a) = due north. Boy/girl. With suffix -ito: a child; likewise means son or girl. Venezuelans are well known amid Spanish speakers for their dearest and constant apply of this give-and-take, which is used repeatedly in the same mode equally the American slang dude.
• Chao = exp. (from the Italian "ciao") To bid cheerio, similar to "bye".
• Chaparro = n. Slang for penis. Run beyond güevo and piripicho. Lit. Short person, shorty.
• Chévere = adj. Fine, absurd, cracking. Besides used to express agreement.
• Chencho(a) = due north. See Tierrúo(a).
• Chimbo(a) = adj. Lousy. Of low quality. Homemade. Sick fabricated. Fake. Uncool.
• Chinchorro = northward. A hammock.
• Chino(a) = n. Andean expression for a boy or girl, particularly in the Trujillo State. Lit. Chinese person.
• Chiripiolca = northward. When a person is restless, broken-hearted or nervous. By and large refers when someone all of a sudden become mad or crazy. Example: "Le dió la chiripiolca" = She/he gets crazy. From El Chavo del Ocho.
• Chivo = due north. The boss, someone at a loftier position in an organization. Lit. Caprine fauna. Example: "El chivo que más mea" (The caprine animal that pisses the nearly) = the almost important person.
• Chulo = n. Person who lives from/takes advantage from others, oftentimes financially. Lit. Pimp.
• Chupichupi = due north. (As well chupi chupi) A water-based frozen snack in a plastic tube, a freezie.
• Chupón = due north. A pacifier. A hickey. Lit. Sucker.
• Churupo = n. Coin.
• Chola = due north./adj. Flip-flops/slippers. Accelerator pedal. As well means "speedy", for example: "Dale chola!" (Bustle up!) or "Yo iba demasiado chola" (I was going likewise fast). A popular radio personality in Venezuela has the nickname "Full Chola" (Speedy)
• Choro(a) = n. Thief, robber (pejorative).
• Cocoya = n. Vagina (profane). Meet totona.
• Coger cola pa'l (para el) cielo = exp. To masturbate (only used for male masturbation. Profane). Lit. "Hitchhike to sky".
• Cojeculo = n. Chaos, disaster, clusterfuck. A cluttered crowd in which annihilation tin can happen (profane). See bululú.
• Conejo(a) = n. A naive person. Lit. Rabbit.
• Coñazo = n. A tearing hit or strike (profane). Information engineering can also hateful a lot of when used with the preposition de. Example: "Había un coñazo de gente en la fiesta" (In that location were many people at the party).
• Coñito(a) = n. A kid (profane), mainly used in Zulia.
• ¡Coño! = exp. "Damn!" or "fuck!" (profane, widely used).
• Coño de madre = north. A rotten bounder. (profane). Lit. "Mother'due south cunt".
• ¡Coño de la madre! = exp. "Oh, my fucking God!", used to denote high frustration and anger (very profane). Lit. "Mother'southward cunt!"
• Compinche = due north. Partner, friend, buddy. Come up across pana.
• Contorno = northward. A side dish. From Italian.
• Coroto(south) = n. Stuff, belongings. Word derives from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot'south last name.
• Costilla = n. Spouse or partner. An affectionate fashion of a person to refer to a very close friend. Lit. Rib.
• Cotorra = n. A lie. See embuste. Lit. Parrot. Chatterbox.
• Cotufas = northward. Popcorn. Presumably derived from "corn to fry".
• Creerse la gran vaina = exp. To be arrogant. Example: "Ella se cree la gran vaina" = She's then total of herself.
• Criollo(a) = due north. A local. A native of Venezuela. Something typically native. Lit. Creole.
• Cuaima = due due north. A very jealous/possessive and untrusting wife/girlfriend. Lit. Bushmaster (a kind of poisonous ophidian).
• Cuca = northward. Vagina (profane). Run across Pepita.
• Cuchi = adj. Beautiful, nice, pretty.
• Culo = n. Haul. A young bonny person that ane would normally date, go out with or have sexual activity with (profane). Lit. Donkey.
• Culillo = n. Much fear (mildly profane). Lit. Small-scale ass.
• Curdo = adj. Drunk. See rascado(a).
• Dar pao-pao = exp. To trounce-up or spank someone. Information technology'southward more often than not used equally a warning to disobedient or rude children.
• De pana = exp. Seriously. For existent.
• De pinga = exp. Absurd, superb, excellent. Meet pepiado.
• Echarle bolas = exp. To put a lot of effort on something.
• Echarle los perros a alguien = exp. (or echar los perros) To flirt with someone. Lit. "To throw the dogs at someone".
• Echón(a) = adj. Arrogant.
• Embuste = northward. A prevarication.
• Embustero(a) = n. A liar.
• Empate = north. Romantic relationship. Lit. Tie, depict.
• Enchivarse = v. To borrow something, employ mitt-me-downs (commonly wearing apparel).
• Ennotado = adj. See nota.
• Epa/Épale = exp. Hi or Hello (informal greeting; "What'due south up"). Besides used to limited surprise. Shut to the Lit. Hey.
• Estar cagado(a) = exp. To exist scared (profane). Lit. "To be shitted".
• Estar empatado(a) = exp. To be in a relationship. Lit. "To be tied".
• Estar encarpado = exp. (Besides as a verb; encarparse) To have an erection. Derives from "carpa" (tent). Equivalent of the expression "To pitch a tent".
• Enrollado = n. A very complicated person.
• Estar fregado(a) = exp. To exist screwed. Lit. "To be scrubbed".
• Estar mosca = exp. To be alarm. Lit. "To be a wing".
• Estar salado(a) = exp. To take bad luck. Lit. "To be salty".
• Fajado(a) = n. Someone who works pretty hard/much on something. Come across fajarse.
• Fajarse = 5. (or estar fajado(a)) To focus and work the hardest on something until getting information technology washed. Example: "¡Tienes que fajarte con eso!" = Yous take to slice of work very hard on that!. Similar to Echarle bolas.
• Faramallero = n. a derogatory term to refer to a boastful person.
• Fino = due north. Fine, cool or dandy. It is used in the aforementioned fashion as the slang "sugariness". Describing word. Example: "Eso está fino" = that is fine.
• Filo = n. Hunger. Lit. Edge. Example: "Llevo el filo parejo" = information technology does not exactly translate just it is like proverb "I'thou very hungry".
• Firifiri = northward. (Too firi firi) A very skinny, weak or malnourished person (Somewhat pejorative).
• Flaco(a) = northward. A slim or skinny person (Ordinarily used in an affectionate way).
• Flaquito(a) = n. Atomic of flaco(a).
• Franela = due north. T-shirt.
• Fregar = v. To suffer the consequences of a wrong conclusion. To spiral upwardly. To badger. To impale. To scrub.
• Fumado(a) = adj. or n. Stoned. Crazy, disheveled, difficult to empathize. Lit. past participle of the verb "fumar", to smoke.
• Fumar(se) una lumpia = exp. used when someone makes wild assumptions or comes up with unrealistic explanations to a state of affairs. Lit. "to fume a (Chinese) egg coil."
• Gafo(a) = adj. or n. Silly. Comes for the Italian give-and-take "cafone" or "gavone" which means impaired peasant.
• Gago(a) = due north. Someone who talks with a stammer or stutter.
• Gargajo = due north. Spit, a loogie.
• Gocho(a) = adj. or northward. A native of the Venezuelan Andes, particularly the states of Mérida, Táchira or Trujillo.
• Golilla = adj. or due north. Affair of depression commercial value, piece of cake to buy or larn (vernacular course of the word cheap). Example: "¡qué barato, una golilla!" = what a deal, that is so inexpensive!. Sometimes used to refer to something piece of cake to practise.
• Gordo(a) = north. A term of endearment similar to darling or infant, more oft used by women to refer to their sons or boyfriends. Lit. stubby or fat person.
• Gordito(a) = n. Diminutive of Gordo(a).
• Gorila = adj. A glutton. Likewise used to refer to abusive person. In politics used equally a synonym to dictator or despot.
• Gringo(a) = due due north. American (of the USA).
• Guachicón = northward. (Northeastern Venezuelan usage) An athletic shoe, sneaker.
• Guachimán = northward. A security baby-sit, sometimes also applied to doormen. Derived from "watchman".
• Guáramo = n. Iron volition. Courage.
• Guaro = n. A native of Lara country.
• Guasacaca = northward. A sauce fabricated from avocados and spices. Resembles Mexican Guacamole.
• Guate = n. Excrement (mildly profane).
• Guayabo = n. To be romantically disillusioned. To take the Dejection. Lit. Tree of the guava fruit.
• Guayoyo = n. Slightly watered down blackness coffee, usually served after meals.
• Güevo = due north. Dick, penis. Nuisance (profane). Derives from "huevo" (egg). Run into pipe.
• Háblame el mío/háblame la mía = exp. Similar to "What's upward?" or "What'due south going on?". Lit. Talk to me dude/talk to me girl.
• Huevón(a) (or güevón(a)) = n. Sucker, asshole, push-over, idiot (profane). Nevertheless, it tin can likewise be used as the Castilian equivalent for "dude".
• Huevonada (or güevonada) = northward. Run across mariquera (profane).
• Huevo pelado (or huevo pelao) = due north. an good, talented, knows what he or she is doing (mildly profane).
• Igualado(a) = adj. A demeaning term to draw someone who pretends to be of a superior financial/intellectual level than the person really is.
• Jalabola = n. (or jala bola) Donkey-kisser (mildly profane). Run across below.
• Jalar bola = 5. To abuse flattering. Sweet talking, intended to go do good from someone with selfish purposes. Like to the expression "scratch your back" (mildly profane). Lit. To pull brawl.
• Jamón = north. A French kiss. Something very like shooting fish in a barrel to practice. A prissy daughter. Lit. Ham.
• Jamoneo = n. French kissing. Too used every bit a verb ("Jamonear" or "Jamonearse").
• Jeva = north. Developed female, girlfriend.
• Joda = n. Joke.
• Jodedera = n. Mockery. When a bunch people gather and act foolishly or play pranks on a person/some other group of people (mildly profane).
• Jodido = adj. Difficult (mildly profane). Come across pelúo(a)
• Lacra = n. Run into rata
• Ladilla = adj. or due north. Something abrasive or boring. A ho-hum or annoying person (mildly profane). Lit. Crab louse.
• Lambucio(a) = n. A glutton. Someone who requests food or appurtenances in a rude manner.
• Lata = n. Buss on the oral scissure/lips. Lit. Tin can. Too used as an expression: "Darse latas" or "darse las latas" (Lit. "To requite each other the cans") which means "to brand out".
• La Pelona = due north. An impersonation of death. The Grim Reaper. Instance: A Juana le apareció La Pelona.
• Lechúo(a) = adj or n. (or lechudo(a)) Lucky.
• Lomito = adj or northward. Cut of beef (Tenderloin). Also used to connote very high quality, or the all-time ane amid a group. Example "(Eso es) puro lomito".
• Macundales = north. Gear, stuff, personal belongings. Derived from the brand "Mac and Dale" (a chugalug to acquit tools used by the oil manufacture workers in Venezuela). Meet Corotos.
• Malandro(a) = n. Gangster, thug, thief, burglar, robber.
• Mamar = 5. (Every bit a verb) To be penniless. Case: "Estar mamando". (As an adjective) To exist tired. Example: "Estar mamado". Lit. "To suck".
• Mamahuevo = due north. (or mamagüevo ^[6]) Cocksucker. Fluffer (profane).
• Mamarracho(a) = n. Someone who makes things of a very bad quality.
• Mamarrachada = northward. Something done/fabricated in a messy or poor fashion.
• Mamar gallo = exp. To fob, fool or tease someone. Lit. "To suck rooster".
• Mamita = due north. (or mamacita) An attractive adult female/young woman. Equally well used as a synonym of "mami" (mommy).
• Mamón = north. Mamoncillo.
• Manganzón(a) = n. A lazy person.
• Maracucho(a) = due north. (or marabino(a)) A native of Maracaibo or its neighborhoods.
• Marico = n. Commonly used as "dude" between friends. "Marica" may too be used betwixt girl friends (mildly profane/pejorative). Lit. Gay human (slur).
• Mariquera = due north. (or maricada) A pocket-sized, insignificant thing. A not-transcendental fact. A synonym for Vaina. Lit. Gay affair (mildly profane).
• Matar united nations tigre = exp. To moonlight. To take a temporary task. Lit. "To kill a tiger".
• Matraquear = v. To blackmail, to demand compensation in exchange of something, peculiarly by decadent cops.
• Mente de pollo(a) = n. (or mentepollo(a)) A dumb or immature person. Lit "Chicken-minded".
• Merengada = northward. A milkshake.
• Meter casquillo = exp. To stir upwardly problem or drama, ordinarily past "planting" malicious gossips and rumors.
• Mojón = n. A prevarication, bullshit. Lit. Slice of excrement (mildly profane).
• Mojonero(a) = northward. Liar. Person who propagates "mojones" (mildly profane). See in a higher place.
• Molleja = exp. Term used to exaggerate, emphasize or limited surprise, mainly used in Zulia. Lit. Gizzard.
• Moreno(a) = north. Someone who has tan skin. When the person has a calorie-free tan or olive skin, this is usually referred to as "trigueño(a)", which derives from "trigo" (wheat). "Morena" also means "moray eel". Lit. Brunet/brunette.
• Mortadela. = n. From the Italian "Mortadella" (a cheaper food fabricated from pork and chicken)
• Musiú = n. (from French Monsieur) A foreigner. Originally used to refer to European immigrants from a non-Hispanic land; the term is currently more often than not used to describe someone who is non familiar with local Venezuelan customs or idiosyncrasies and has a difficult fourth dimension plumbing equipment in. "Hacerse el musiú" ("laissez passer every bit a greenhorn") is a mutual expression used when someone pretends that he/she does non understand a state of affairs in club to avert whatever involvement.
• ¡Na' guará! = exp. An expression to announce surprise, bewilderment. Most commonly used in Lara state.
• Negrear = v. To treat someone badly, to forget or exclude somebody, as an allusion to when black people were victims of racism. Despite its origin, nowadays the term has no racist undertone. Any person tin say the word to another 1 regardless of the color of their peel. Instance: "Me negrearon" = They excluded me. Derives from "negro" (black).
• Nevera = n. Refrigerator.
• Niche = adj. See "chimbo(a)". Of depression grade.
• Nojoda = exp. Venezuelan equivalent of the English language curse word "Goddammit" (profane).
• Nota = northward. Something nice, keen, or pleasant. A drug trip, to be "loftier". Lit. Note. Exact form: Ennotarse.
• O body of water = exp. A course to say any or "I mean". A filler discussion. Lit. Or Similar. Case: "¿O body of water, cómo lo hicíste?" (Like, how'd y'all lot do it!?).
• Paja = northward. Bullshit. "Hablar paja" = to bullshit someone. "Hacerse la paja" = to masturbate (profane). Lit. Hay, harbinger.
• Pajizo(a) = adj. (from paja) Someone who masturbates a lot (profane). Lit. "Wanker".
• Pajúo(a) = n. A loose synonym for pendejo or güevón (mildly profane). Too, it ways "Snitch".
• Paisano = northward. From the Italian "Paesano", pregnant a Venezuelan or Italian (or southern European). Information technology is used to describe, in a friendly fashion, those who are originally from the same globe region or land. For case, a Venezuelan Eye-Eastern tin refer to some other Centre-Eastern as a "paisano."
• Panetón = northward. From "panettone", meaning an Italian Christmas bread
• Pasticho = north. From Italian "pasticcio" (a lasagna)
• Palo = northward. Alcoholic beverage. Lit. Stick. Case: "¡Tómate un palito, pues!" = Accept a little potable (then)!
• Palo de agua = n. Torrential pelting. Lit. Stick of water.
• Pana = northward. Friend, buddy, dude. Mostly practical to men. Interchangeable with Chamo. Lit Corduroy
• Pantallear: v. To lavishly wink oneself or annihilation of value. Derived from "pantalla" (screen).
• Pantallero: n. A show-off. See above.
• Paño = n. Towel.
• Papia'o = adj. Of muscular build. Buff. Derives from "papa" (potato).
• Papear = v. To consume.
• Papito = due northward. (or papacito) An bonny human being/boyfriend. Equally well used every bit a synonym of "papi" (daddy).
• Papo north. Vagina (profane).
• Parcha/parchita= n. Gay human (slur). Lit. Passion fruit.
• Pargo = north. Gay man (slur). Lit. Cherry snapper.
• Pasar roncha = exp. To have a bad moment or experience, or to find many obstacles.
• Pasapalo = n. Titbit. Snack. Hors d'oeuvres.
• Pato = northward. Gay man (slur). Lit. Duck. Maybe derived from the duck test
• Pava = northward. Bad luck, ill omen.
• Pavo(a) = adj. or north. A trendy or well dressed boyish, child, youngster. Lit. Turkey.
• Pavosaurio = n. An older person who tries to human activity young. Lit. Turkey + dinosaur.
• Peaje = n. Illegal fee. Lit. Toll. Run across also bajarse de la mula.
• Pelando bola = 5. (in the continuous tense.) To be out of money or with nothing to do/bored. Lit. Peeling brawl
• Pelón(a) = north. Fault, fault or someone who has bad aim. Lit. Bald or peeled.
• Pelúo(a) = adj. (or peludo(a)) Very difficult. Lit. Hairy.
• Peluquearse = v. To become to a hair salon and become your hair stock-still/styled.
• Pendejo(a) = adj. or n. An idiot, a pushover. Run into huevón.
• Pendejada = due north. See mariquera.
• Peorro(a) = adj. Mediocre, inferior (mildly profane).
• Pepiado adj. (or pepeado/pepiao) Absurd, superb, excellent.
• Pepa = n. Seed.
• Pepita = Lit. Seed, nugget.
• Perico = north. Venezuelan-manner scrambled eggs with onions, tomatoes, and oftentimes bell peppers. Also used to describe cocaine. Lit. Parakeet.
• Perinola = north. Cup-and-ball toy.
• Perol = n. A coroto, a kettle.
• Picado(a) = adj. Ticked off, feeling upset (nigh likely after being insulted or proven wrong) while at the aforementioned fourth dimension hiding or denying the feeling. Lit. Stung. In the littoral region information technology is used to hateful an agitated sea: "El mar está picado".
• Picar = verb. To provoke. To say or do something that would lead a person to become "Picado" o "Picada". Likewise, consume a snack. Lit. Sting, or slice.
• Pichirre = adj. Stingy, selfish, miser, inexpensive.
• Pinga = n. Run into below.
• Pipe = due north. Dick, penis (profane). See güevo.
• Pipirisnais = adj. (Also pipirisnice or pipirisnai) A very absurd or skilled person. Example: "Él se cree un pipirisnais" = He thinks he'southward so cool.
• Pipí frío = exp. (or pipe frío) Someone that has been single or haven't had sex for a long time. Someone defective social skills or uninteresting. Lit. "Common cold penis".
• Piripicho = n. Penis.
• Plaga = n. A mosquito. A swarm of mosquitoes. A mischievous person, a pest. (See Rata). Lit. Plague.
• Planetario(a) = adj. Crazy, insane. "No soy loco, soy planetario" (I'm non crazy, I'thousand planetary), became a popular grab-phrase after it was used by a patient in a mental institution during the filming of a documentary.
• Pollo(a) = north. A childish, naive or young person. Lit. Chicken.
• Polvo = n. Coitus. Copulation. Lit. Dust.
• Ponsigué = due n. Ber.
• Prendido(a) = adj. Tipsy, wanting more than. Lit. Ignited, turned on.
• Puta = n. Used in many cases to hateful slut. Lit. Whore, prostitute (profane).
• Queso = northward. Sexual bulldoze, Animalism. By and large practical to men. Lit. Cheese. Example: "Tengo queso" = I'chiliad horny.
• Quesúo(a) = adj. (or quesudo(a)) Horny, lustful.
• Rabipelado = due due north. Opossum.
• Rancho = north. A shanty house. A precarious makeshift abode plant in barrios or favelas fabricated out of whatsoever the builder may observe, including paper-thin, woods, metal rods, zinc sheets. These have a tendency to evolve into brick houses and sometimes 3-story buildings every bit the possessor acquires more materials. Lit. Ranch.
• Rascado(a) = adj. Drunk.
• Raspar = 5. To fail a course, exam or field of study. Example: ¡Chamo, raspé Inglés! = Dude, I failed English!. Lit. To scrape/scratch.
• Rata = due north. An evil or treacherous person. Lit. Rat.
• Ratón = n. Hangover. Lit. Mouse. Instance: "Tengo ratón" = I've got a hangover.
• Raya = exp. (or rayón) An embarrassment. The expression "¡Qué rayón!" ways "How embarrassing" or "That'south then embarrassing".
• Real = n. Money.
• Rico(a) = adj. or due northward. An attractive person. Succulent, pleasurable. Lit. Rich.
• Rollo = due north. a trouble.
• Rumba = north. A political party. Also used every bit a verb ("rumbear").
• Rumba de coñazos = exp. To violently and exaggeratedly hitting or strike for a while (profane). Example: "¡Te voy a dar una rumba de coñazos!" = I'one thousand gonna kick your donkey!/I'm gonna kill y'all! Run across salita.
• Rumba de palos = exp. To be beaten up. In a sports context, whenever a squad wins over some other with a large score.
• Rumbero(a) = due north. A partygoer.
• Sacar la piedra = exp. To bother or exasperate someone.
• Salita = due north. A vehement game, bullying method or hazing ritual that goes like this: A bunch of people (normally males) go together, and so discreetly select a person equally a "target" or "victim" (male, near of the time) and set up up a give-and-take/gesture as a signal. Adjacent, They follow, pretend or trick the person then They go close to them. After that, 1 of them gives the bespeak and They start to repeatedly smack the "target" for a short flow of fourth dimension (betwixt iii and xv seconds) until They but end or the person either defends themselves or runs abroad.
• Santamaría = n. Rollup metallic door to secure storefronts. Instance: "Bajaron la santamaría" = "They closed their doors". Lit. Holy Mary.
• Sapo = north. A snitch, informer. Lit. Toad.
• Ser pila = exp. (or ser pilas) To exist smart and/or alert.
• Sifrino(a) = adj. A wealthy, bossy, arrogant person. adj. Posh, applied to people and things, such equally an accent or clothes. In the case of people nigh often used to refer to teenagers. It is somewhat mutual for sifrinos to utilize Spanglish; the crutch discussion "O torso of water" and demeaning gestures such as the L.
• Tequeño = n. A deep-fried flour gyre filled with cheese, similar to cheese sticks. Lit. A native from the city of Los Teques.
• Teta = north. A source of guaranteed income. A brawl/scoop of ice cream, sorbet or frozen flavored water wrapped in a small plastic handbag that is eaten past opening a hole on the tip and sucking on it. Lit. Tit, female breast.
• Tetilla = due n. Male breast, male nipple.
• Tigre = northward. Second job or night chore. Encounter Matar united nations tigre. Lit. Tiger.
• Tierrúo(a) = n. (or tierrudo(a)) A person (by and large of low class) who behaves, dresses or says things in a vulgar or uneducated mode. Too, could exist considered an contrary of "sifrino(a)". Data technology derives from "tierra" (soil) which is something associated with dirt.
• Tirar = v. To have sex. Lit. To throw.
• Totona = n. Vagina (profane).
• Toñeco = adj. A person who likes to receive a lot of affection through cuddles, caresses, kisses, or similar concrete contact. Instance: "Mi bebé es muy toñeco" = My baby loves my affection.
• Trácala northward. (or tracalería) Play a trick on, fraud.
• Tripeo = n. Something that is very enjoyable. Example: "Qué tripeo esta vaina" = This is really fun. Also used every bit a verb; "tripear".
• Tripón = due north. Child.
• Tufo n. Bad underarm odor. See violín.
• Tuki n. See choro.
• Ubícate = exp. "Go real". Lit. "Locate yourself".
• Vacilar = v. To savor something/accept a skilful time. Example: "Estoy vacilando" = I am having fun. Also used equally a substantive: "Vacile", as in "qué malvacile" = What a bad fourth dimension. Lit. vacillate
• Vaina = adj. or northward. Thing, annoyance, trouble, predicament, situation, endeavor, liaison. Vaina is i of the well-nigh versatile Venezuelan words, non necessarily having a negative connotation (mildly profane). Lit. Pod, sheath.
• Verga = due north. Dick (profane) exp. Used to convey a feeling of daze, disgust or alarm (profane). In the Western part of the country, especially in Zulia state, it is a nonsensical filler as an culling to vaina.
• ¡Vergación! = exp. superlative grade of verga (profane), mainly used in Zulia.
• Vergajazo = n. Run across coñazo (profane), mainly used in Zulia.
• Vergatario(a) = adj. Something excellent, or someone who has done something very well (mildly profane).
• Verguero = n. Ball, havoc (profane), mainly used in Zulia. Meet cojeculo.
• Vete al carajo = exp. (or vete al coño de tu madre) "Fuck you" or "Go fuck yourself". Lit. "Become to the crow's nest" / "Go to your mother's cunt" (profane).
• ¡Vete al coñísimo de tu madre! = exp. Meridian course of the term in a higher place (very profane).
• Violín = n. Bad odor in armpits. Encounter Tufo. Lit. Violin.
• Yesquero = northward. A lighter.
• Yeyo = due northward. Low blood pressure, dizziness or faint mostly caused past a potent impression or stress.
• Zampar = v. To French kiss somebody.
• Zamuro = n. A stalker. Lit. Vulture.
• Zanahoria = northward. Someone who zealously takes care of his/her ain health. A vegetarian. A person that behaves well, nerd. Straight, make clean. adj. A deadening, boring person. Lit. Carrot.
• Zancudo = northward. Mosquito. Lit. "The one that walks on stilts" as a metaphor for the insect's long legs.
• Zapatero = exp. To lose in a game with goose egg points. Lit. Shoemaker.
• Zapatos de goma = due north. Sneakers. Lit. Safe soled shoes.
• Zapatos de patente = n. Patent-leather shoes.
• Zumbado(a) = adj. (or zumba'o/zumbá) Frontwards, crazy, nutty, devil-may-intendance person.

Run into also [edit]

• Academia Venezolana de la Lengua
• Llanero Castilian
• Maracucho Spanish

Notes [edit]

References [edit]

1. ^ Spanish → Venezuela at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
2. ^ "ISO 639-two Language Code search". Library of Congress . Retrieved 21 September 2017.
3. ^ Ostler, Nicholas (2010). Empires of the word : a linguistic communication history of the world. Folio Social club. pp. 335–347. OCLC 692307052.
4. ^ Alexandra Alvarez & Ximena Barros, "Sistemas en conflicto: las formas de tratamiento en la ciudad de Mérida, Venezuela" Archived 2006-07-21 at the Wayback Auto, Lengua y Habla (2000), Mérida, Universidad de Los Andes.
5. ^ Lapesa Melgar, Rafael. 1970. Las formas verbales de segunda persona y los orígenes del voseo., in: Carlos H. Magis (ed.), Actas del 3 Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (México, D.F., 26-31 Aug 1968). México: Colegio de México, 519-531: 525-526.
6. ^ "United nations venezolano pregunta cómo se escribe un popular insulto en su país y la RAE le responde". elnuevoherald . Retrieved 2018-08-19 .

Sources [edit]

• Español venezolano, Español maracucho and Voseo in the Castilian Wikipedia.
• Alexandra Alvarez & Ximena Barros (2000). "Sistemas en conflicto: las formas de tratamiento en la ciudad de Mérida, Venezuela". Lengua y Habla. Archived from the original on 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2006-09-xviii .

External links [edit]

• (in Castilian) Diccionario de Venezolanadas (Forums and dictionary)
• (in Spanish) Jergas de Habla Hispana Spanish dictionary specializing in slang and vernacular expressions, featuring all Spanish-speaking countries, including Venezuela.
• (in English language and Spanish) Venezuelan Colloquial Castilian For English Speakers (English language translations of Venezuelan slang)

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