• Abordar (una nave) á (or con) otra: To board (a ship).
• Abrasarse en deseos: To be burning with desire.
• Abundar de (or en) riquezas: To abound with riches.
• Abusar de la amistad: To abuse friendship.
• Acertar con la casa: To find the right house.
• Adelantarse á otros: To take the start on others.
• Admirarse de un suceso: To wonder at an event.
• Aficionarse á alguna cosa: To grow fond of anything.
• Alejarse de su tierra: To depart from one's country.
• Alimentarse con (or de) yerbas: To feed on vegetables.
• Anticiparse á otro: To forestall another.
• Apiadarse con los pobres: To have pity on the poor.
• Aportar á Barcelona: To put into Barcelona.
• Apreciar en mucho: To appreciate highly.
• Arder de cólera: To burn with anger.
• Armarse de paciencia: To arm oneself with patience.
• Arrimarse á la pared: To lean against the wall.
• Arrostrar (con (or por)) los peligros: To face the dangers.
• Atender (á) los negocios: To attend to business.
• Aventajarse á otros: To excel others.

• Bañar con (de or en) lágrimas: To bathe with tears.
• Barbear con la pared: To run against the wall.
• Brindar á la salud de alguno: To drink the health of someone.
• Brindar con regalos: To give presents.
• Burlarse de algo: To laugh at something.

• Caber de pies: There to be standing room.
• Calificar de docto: To call one learned.
• Cambiar una cosa con (or por) otra: To exchange one thing for another.
• Campar por su respeto: To keep to oneself.
• Carecer de medios: To lack means.
• Casar or casarse con alguno: To marry someone.
• Cesar de correr: To cease running.
• Cifrar su dicha en la virtud: To make one's happiness consist in virtue.
• Clavar á (or en) la pared: To nail on the wall.
• Cojear del pie derecho: To limp with the right foot.
• Colgar de un clavo: To hang on a nail.
• Colmar de mercedes: To load with benefits.
• Comerciar con su crédito: To trade on one's credit.
• Comprar de (or á) una persona: To buy from someone.
• Comprar al fiado: To buy on credit.
• Comprometerse á pagar: To undertake to pay.
• Confiar en (or de) alguno: To trust anybody.
• Conservarse con (or en) salud: To keep in good health.
• Contar con su auxilio: To count on his help.
• Contravenir á la ley: To contravene the law.
• Convenir al enfermo: To suit the patient.
• Correr con los gastos: To undertake the expense.
• Cortar por lo sano: To cut short (an argument, etc.).
• Cumplir á uno hacer una cosa: To be one's duty to do something.
• Chancearse con alguno: To joke with someone.

• Dañarse del pecho: To injure one's chest.
• Dar con la carga en el suelo: To throw down the load.
• Dar con quien lo entiende: To come across someone who understands it.
• Dar contra un poste: To knock against a post.
• Dar de barato: To grant for argument's sake.
• Darse por vencido: To give it up.
• Decir bien una cosa con otra: To match well together.
• Decir para sí: To say to oneself.
• Dejar de escribir: To cease writing, to fail to write.
• Demandar ante el juez (or en juicio): To summon.
• Depender de alguno: To be dependent on someone.
• Desayunarse con chocolate: To breakfast on chocolate.
• Desconfiar de alguno: To mistrust one.
• Descuidarse de (or en) su obligación: To neglect one's duty.
• Desfallecer de ánimo: To lose courage.
• Deshacerse de los géneros: To get rid of the goods.
• Detestar de la mentira: To hate lying.
• Disfrutar de buena renta: To enjoy a good income.
• Doblar por un difunto: To sound the death knell.
• Dudar de alguna cosa: To doubt something.

• Echar en tierra: To throw on the ground.
• Echar de casa: To turn out of the house.
• Echar de ver una cosa: To perceive (realise) a thing.
• Echarla de rico: To assume airs of a rich man.
• Embelesarse con alguna cosa: To go into raptures over anything.
• Embutir de algodón: To stuff with cotton.
• Enajenarse de alguna cosa: To do away with anything.
• Encargarse de algún negocio: To undertake a business.
• Encontrarse con un amigo: To meet a friend.
• Encuadernar á la rústica, en pasta: To bind in paper covers, in boards.
• Escarmentar con la desgracia: To take warning from misfortune.
• Esmerarse en alguna cosa: To take pains with anything.

• Fiarse á (de, en) alguno: To trust in anyone.
• Firmar de propria mano: To sign with one's own hand.
• Forrar de (con, en) pieles: To line with skins.
• Fumar en pipa: To smoke the pipe.

• Girar á cargo de alguno: To draw on someone.
• Girar sobre París: To draw on Paris.
• Guardarse de alguno: To guard against anybody.
• Gustar de bromas: To be fond of joking.

• Habérselas con otros: To wrangle, to have a bone to pick, to vie with
• Hacer de galán en un drama: To take the part of principal actor in a drama.
• Herir de muerte: To wound fatally.
• Hincarse de rodillas: To fall on one's knees.
• Hocicar con (contra, en) alguna cosa: To run against anything.

• Igualar (igualarse) á (or con) otro: To equal another, to match.
• Indemnizar del perjuicio: To indemnify for the loss.
• Influir con el jefe: To influence the chief.
• Insistir en (sobre) una cosa: To insist on something.
• Inspirar una idea á alguno: To inspire anybody with an idea.
• Inundar de (or en) agua: To flood with water.

• Librar á cargo de un banquero: To draw on a banker.
• Librar una letra sobre Paris: To draw a bill on Paris.
• Lindar (una tierra) con otra: To border on another.
• Llegar á la posada: To reach the inn.
• Llevarse bien con el vecino: To get on well with the neighbour.
• Llover á cantaros: To rain in bucketfuls.

• Maravillarse con (or de) una noticia: To be surprised at some news.
• Marcar á fuego: To brand.
• Mejorar de condición: To improve in condition.
• Mejorar en tercio y quinto: To improve greatly.

• Oler á rosas: To smell of roses.

• Parecerse á otro: To be similar to another.
• Pensar en (sobre) alguna cosa: To think of something.
• Pensar para sí: To think to oneself.
• Perecerse de risa: To die with laughter.
• Pintar de azul: To paint blue.
• Poblar de árboles: To plant with trees.
• Ponerse á escribir: To commence writing.
• Prescindir de una cosa: To dispense with anything.
• Presumir de rico: To feign riches.
• Proveer á la necesidad pública: To provide the needs of the public.

• Quedar á deber: To remain owing.
• Quedarse con lo ajeno: To keep other people's property.

• Rebosar de alegría: To teem with joy.
• Recibir á cuenta: To receive on account.
• Recibir de criado: To admit as a servant.
• Recibir por esposa: To receive as a wife.
• Reclamar á fulano: To claim from so and so.
• Responder á la pregunta: To answer the question.
• Reventar de risa: To burst with laughter.
• Rodear de una pared: To surround with a wall.

• Saber á vino: To taste of wine.
• Salirse con la suya: To have one's own way.
• Salvarse á nado: To save oneself by swimming.
• Sentarse á la mesa: To sit down at table.
• Soñar con ladrones: To dream of thieves.
• Suplicar (apelar) de la sentencia: To appeal against the sentence.

• Tachar de ligero: To tax one with levity.
• Tener á menos hablar á uno: Not to deign to speak to one.
• Tenerse de pie: To stand on foot.
• Teñir de (en) negro: To dye black.
• Tomar á pecho: To take to heart.
• Tomar hacia la derecha: To turn to the right.
• Trabajar á destajo: To do work by the job.
• Trabarse de palabras: To quarrel.
• Transportar á lomo: To carry on one's back.

• Varar en la playa: To run aground.
• Velar á los muertos: To watch over the dead.
• Vengarse de una ofensa: To avenge an insult.
• Vengarse en el ofensor: To avenge oneself on the offender.
• Venir á casa: To come home.
• Ver de hacer algo: To try and do something.
• Vestir á la moda: To dress in the fashion.
• Vestir de máscara: To dress in fancy dress.
• Vestirse de paño: To dress in cloth.
• Vivir á su gusto: To live after one's taste.

The Simple tenses only are given: Compound tenses are formed with the verb "haber" followed by the past participle.

Ser is used:

• i. To form the Passive Voice.
• ii. To denote an inherent quality.

Estar is used:

• i. To denote state in locality, viz., "to be" in a place.
• ii. To denote condition (as opposed to inherent quality).

Use Ser:

• i. Before a noun (even if an adjective or an article intervenes).
• ii. When "to be" is used impersonally.
• iii. When "to be" denotes possession.
• iv. Before pobre, rico, felis, and infeliz.