This week’s Spanish word of the week is suceso.
Suceso is a noun that means event or incident. You can listen to the pronunciation of suceso in the audio clip below:
Today will be looking at the ‘false friend’ suceso. Be careful not to use the word success as a translation. Suceso translates into English as either event or incident:
los sucesos más importantes de la última década the major events of the last decade
dar amplia difusión a un suceso to give full coverage to an event
El suceso ocurrió alrededor las tres de la tarde. The incident happened at around three in the afternoon.
Llamaron a la policía para que acudiera al lugar del suceso. The police were called to the scene of the incident.
To say success in Spanish use the noun éxito:
Tuvo gran éxito como escritora. She was a great success as a writer.
We hope to see you again the week for another word!
