Have you ever gotten lost? When you were lost, how did you go about finding how to get to where it was you wanted to go to? Most likely you had to get directions. Go north or go south or turn left or turn right. Eventually those directions got you to your destination. Now what would happen if say you were in Argentina and you needed to ask for directions? Chances are that you would not be told south, north, right or left, at least not in English. Therefore, this vocabulary Spanish Easy Review quiz will review words related to directions such as north (norte) and south (sur).
Now you get to test your sense of direction in Spanish. Therefore, let’s take a closer look at the following direction vocabulary words.
ENGLISH | SPANISH | PHONETIC PRONUNCIATION |
---|---|---|
north | norte [m] | nor-tāy |
south | sur [m] | sir |
east | este [m] | ĕs-tāy |
west | oeste [m] | ō-ĕs-tāy |
northeast | noreste [m] | nor-ĕs-tāy |
southeast | sudeste [m] | sūe-dĕs-tāy |
northwest | noroeste [m] | nor-ō-ĕs-tāy |
southwest | suroeste [m] | sir- ō-ĕs-tāy |
right | derecha [f] | dāy-rā-chă |
left | izquierda [f] | ēz-key-air-dă |
here | aquí | ă-key |
there | allí | ă-yē |
near | cerca | sear-că |
far | lejos | lāy-hōse (notice that the J sounds like an H) |
Notice that the Spanish words for here, there, near and far are neutral words and/or non-gender specific, i.e., they are neither masculine nor feminine. Rather, they are adjectives that describe something such as: Where is the hotel? It is near. Near describes something about the hotel’s location.
After you have had a chance to study your direction vocabulary words, move on to the quiz section. The quiz is a series of ten sentences with the direction word shown in all capitalized letters. See if you can locate the correct answer that matches the capitalized direction word.