Spanish word of the week: negocio

This week’s Spanish word of the week is negocio.

Negocio is a masculine noun that means business. You can listen to the pronunciation of negocio in the audio clip below:

Negocio is the basic word for a business:

Hemos abandonado la idea de montar un negocio. We have given up the idea of starting a business.

El turismo es un gran negocio aquí. Tourism is big business here.

When used in the plural, negocios can refer either to several businesses:

Han decidido integrar sus negocios en Colombia y Venezuela en una única división. They’ve decided to bring their businesses in Colombia and Venezuela together in one division.

Or negocios in the plural may refer to the ‘uncountable’ meaning of business in English:

Fui a Alemania en viaje de negocios. I went to Germany on a business trip.

en el mundo de los negocios in the business world

It may help you to remember the meaning of negocio if you link it to negotiate, which is something you have to do in business.

Come back next week for another insight into Spanish vocabulary!