This week’s Spanish word of the week is precioso.
Precioso is an adjective that means beautiful, lovely.
You can listen to the pronunciation of precioso in the audio clip below:
Precioso has one meaning which is the same as precious in English:
Estamos perdiendo un tiempo precioso. We’re wasting precious time.
However, it’s much more often used in its other meaning of beautiful or lovely:
Llevaba puesto un precioso vestido de noche. She had on a beautiful evening dress.
el campo está precioso the countryside looks beautiful
Tenía una sonrisa preciosa. He had a lovely smile.
un día precioso para dar un paseo a lovely day for a walk
In the meaning of precious it’s mainly used to refer to piedras preciosas, precious stones:
un broche con incrustaciones de piedras preciosas a brooch incrusted with precious stones
We hope to see you again the week for another word!
