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35 Argentine Spanish Verb Phrases with ESTAR

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In Spanish the verb ESTAR is one of the most common verbs used. For this reason it is one of the first to learn. The same is true for Argentine Spanish where ESTAR is part of over 30 different verb phrases:

List of Argentine Spanish ESTAR Verbs

1. estar a pleno - to be utterly and completely focused on someone or something

2. estar al divino botón - 1) to not have a use, without a function.2) to have nothing to do

3. estar al pedo - to be hanging out, wasting time, farting around

4. estar alzado - to be horny

5. estar arruinado - literally "to be ruined" meaning to look older than your age, worn out or tired

6. estar careta - to be sober, or not high, for a drug user

7. estar cebado - to be extremely interested in something

8. estar chupado - to be drunk

9. estar con el bombo - to be pregnant

10. estar con todas las pilas - ready and raring to go

11. estar copado con - to be fascinated with, hooked on

12. estar curtido - to be experienced

13. estar dado vuelta - wasted, drunk

14. estar del otro lado - to be drunk

15. estar de onda - to be trendy or fashionable

16. estar de pirata - 1) to go out trolling for women with the intention of cheating on your wife/girlfriend. 2) to secretly date a woman, hiding it from your wife

17. estar de rechupete - to be tasty (food)

18. estar duro - to be on a drug high

19. estar embolado - to be bored

20. estar en cana - to be in jail

21. estar en el horno - to be in a complicated, difficult situation

22. estar en la onda - to be in the loop, in the know

23. estar en pelotas - to be clueless, to have no idea

24. estar fogueado - to have experience

25. estar guardado - literally "to be put away", to be in jail

26. estar hecho - to be stuffed from eating

27. estar hecho un langa - to be extremely confident, a seductor

28. estar limado - to be burned out


29. estar meado por los gatos - to be covered in bad luck, cursed

30. estar metido - to be in love

31. estar pachucha - to be run down, sad, not feel well

32. estar paja - to be lazy

33. estar para chuparse los dedos - to be tasty, food

34. estar para el diván - to be crazy

35. estar un kilo (y dos pancitos) - to be great, excellent, or even better than excellent

Check out these other Argentina Spanish Slang Expressions articles.

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