This week’s Spanish word of the week is afortunado.
Afortunado is an adjective that means fortunate or lucky.
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Afortunado is a key word for lucky:
He sido muy afortunada pudiendo hacer algo que me gusta. I’ve been very fortunate to be able to do something that I like.
los menos afortunados que nosotros those less fortunate than ourselves
Me considero afortunado. I count myself lucky.
¿Quién es la afortunada? Who is the lucky woman?
You can create the opposite of afortunado using poco:
El proyecto contenía términos poco afortunados. The report contained unfortunate terms.
Deriving from afortunado is the very commonly used afortunadamente, fortunately, or luckily:
Afortunadamente, nadie resultó herido. Happily, no one was hurt.
Come back next week to read about our next Spanish word of the week!
