What's a "cervecita"?

[reprehensor]

Well?

[malta blue]

1. a mini beer?

[sarge43]

2. Cerveza is brand of Mexican beer

Cervecita, a drink of Cerveza?

[Fountain79]

24. Cerveza is spanish for beer n/t

[Kali]

25. Cerveza is not a brand it is the word "beer" in Spanish

Literally cervecita is small or tiny beer.

[SKKY]

3. Just a sort of slang term for "beer"...It doesn't mean "small beer"...

...or anything like that. Just "beer".

[fudge stripe cookays]

I concur with the above folks.

Like you couldn't just call your Texan wife (with measurable knowledge of Spanish) at work to ask this? Geez..... :eyes:

[reprehensor]

5. Look, senorita...

You should be working.

Don't make me get all up in your guts.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Harumph.

Just wait til we get home.

:P

[tigereye]

23. OMG!

I've never seen you both on the same thread! Cool.

[fudge stripe cookays]

27. It happens very seldom.

He is the 911 scholar, and I am the Lounge Goddess. Never the twain shall meet, and all that. It's what I get, being married to a geek.

Love you, hunny. :P

[sendero]

29. They're the same way in person..

... isn't it cute :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Slang for beer. nt

[UTUSN]

7. Sorry, folks, but "cerveza" is NOT *slang* for beer. It IS the word for it

"Cerveza" EQUALS "beer", PERIOD. Neither is it a BRAND. It is BEER!!!1 (Am I yelling yet?)

As for "cervecita" - literally, it would be mini-beer, but NO Spanish speaker would EVER use it that way (as "mini"). The suffix " -ita" is added to lots of different nouns to add the connotation of AFFECTION. "Let's have a little (sweet/lovely) beer"-------hah! Famous last words.

Wife: esposa - esposita (the affection here more often being sardonic). Onion: cebolla - cebollita. Dog: perro - perrito.

One SLANG word for beer, a lowbrow word, is "vironga" which sounds dirty/porny.

[Heidi]

8. Swiss-German uses diminutives the same way

but with the "li" suffix. :hi:

[UTUSN]

12. Cool. I wish I knew languages Latin, Greek, Sanskrit

"Diminutive" - THAT's the word!!!1

:toast:



Edit to correct spelling: NOT "diminuAtive". Looks like I don't even know ENGLISH!!1 :blush:

[Heidi]

16. Absolutely agreed.

I speak only English on a level that I would consider fluent, but passable survival Spanish, German, Swiss-German and Italian. Our nieces, 12 and 14, speak all of these languages, plus French and the northern Italian dialect, fluently. This summer, they learned that they can talk to boys from _everywhere_. :rofl:

If I had unlimited time and a patient teacher, I'd love to learn Tibetan. :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. Take a deep breath. Calm down. Drink a cerveza.

[UTUSN]

13. "CerveCITA," por favor.

In colloquial, conversational speech among friends, the diminutative form for just about everything is used instead of the plain, proper version.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. My Spanish is almost non-existent.

I understood it as a little kid, but then we moved to the suburbs and I lost it.

[UTUSN]

15. No criticism intended. My attempts at comedy often fall flat & heavy.

But, for me, on the list of words not to forget, or to re-learn, "cerveza" would be RIGHT UP THERE!!1

[Throd]

21. Sounds like someone needs a cervezon

Tome una Caguama

[jobycom]

17. So would you say Amigocita?

:rofl:

[UTUSN]

18. Amigito. But usually in a sarcastic or bully way, amigito. n/t

[jobycom]

31. Sarcastic like not a friend, or like not little? nt

[fudge stripe cookays]

28. Gracias!

I hadn't studied the thread that well until now. That needed clarifying.

[LaurenG]

9. Do you mean servilleta

If so that's a napkin.

[UTUSN]

10. Oh. Your headline by itself almost made me 'splode!!1

I was going to say, "You cool-loungers know exactly how to push an old, out-of-it codger's buttons!!!1"

But your message-text wiped THAT away.

[anarch]

19. what's a "napkin"?

:shrug:

[LaurenG]

20. It's something you wipe your mouth with and stays in your lap

when not in use while at the dinner table. You know, kinda like your sleeve but a separate piece of cloth.:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

22. a small cervix?

:shrug:

RL

[tigereye]

26. ah

:rofl:

that's good, Retro! :hi:

[RetroLounge]

30. ...

:hi:

RL