Spanish for 'oops'

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Spanish for 'oops'

Postby gavilan » Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:52 pm

I dropped something unimportant on the floor the other day and heard myself say 'oops' ... what would I say in Spanish?

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby gerryh » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:17 pm

If you where Spanish and dropped something you regarded as unimportant such as litter, fag ends, drinks cans etc. you wouldn't say anything as it is perfectly normal to drop things on the floor. :twisted:
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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby gavilan » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:28 pm

gerryh: thanks for that info ... yes I know the Spanish way of dropping things on the floor ... what i had tried to say in my original post was that I had not intended to drop anything ... it was an accident albeit a trivial one ... and I said 'oops' as an immediate response ...

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby country boy » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:57 pm

The Spanish equivalent for "oops"...yes, I would like to know that too!
( I can hear the usual partici'pants' sharpening their replies already). :roll:

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby katy » Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:31 pm

"Aye" . I would just say "oh F*** in both languages! it's international :angel:

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby rafiki » Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:58 pm

¡UY!
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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby peteroldracer » Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:27 pm

Sweet little old ladies round here just say "coño!" :oops:
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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby markwilding » Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:49 pm

No need to be embarrassed because it doesn't have the same strength as in English.
"Mierda" Is another
"Uy" is very week
"Joder" is strong and to avoid saying it, I've heard "joe", which is sort of similar to sugar in English.

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby rafiki » Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:42 pm

markwilding wrote:"Uy" is very week
Or weak perhaps. :D 'Oops!' is not a strong word so 'uy' is appropriate in the context.
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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby markwilding » Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:16 am

meirda!!!!!!!!!! I blame it on my Ipad's predictive text :lolno:

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby rafiki » Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:52 am

:)
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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby gavilan » Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:50 am

Thanks to you all for those interesting responses ... I think I will use 'uy' or 'aye' ... ie start small and insignificant and work up from there ... thanks again

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby country boy » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:10 am

The "oops" I'm interested in would be the one you would say rather sardonically when, say, you inadvertently sat on your mother laws best hat, or rear-ended the Mayors car, or accidentally pressed the nuclear rocket send button. Slightly different from the suggestion above I'm sure which are more of the Bu@@er, Damn variety.

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby Devils Advocate » Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:21 pm

Yep two different types of oops is right CB. Gavilans right I reckon with her "uy" pronounced like Hoy (today).

For a more serious "oops" POR is on the money with cono, I've realised it's not as bad as we think it is and is used by people who don't even swear I've noticed. Nothing like the C word in English, in our part of Andalucía anyway.

Number 1 used oops has to be the ubiquitous "oi,oi,oiiiii" :mrgreen:
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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby Miro » Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:30 pm

My neighbour who hails from Ecuador (by way of Peru, with a Swedish passport, so may use some rare dialect) is frightfully polite. She tends to use either "miercoles" (in place of mier.., presumably) or "caracoles", and sometimes (rather delightfully) "uy, caramba!" I used to think that was only used in cartoons! :D
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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby markwilding » Thu Nov 20, 2014 4:21 pm

gavilan wrote:Thanks to you all for those interesting responses ... I think I will use 'uy' or 'aye' ... ie start small and insignificant and work up from there ... thanks again
I think it's better to swear in your own language. Basically, because you need to feel what it being said.
I wouldn't feel like I'm expressing myself properly, if I called someone a Hijo de p@t@ but I would using an English equivalent with the same strength, even if I'm speaking Spanish at the time.

If I dropped something on the floor, I'm sure f@ck or sh/t would slip out of my mouth.

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby katy » Thu Nov 20, 2014 5:57 pm

markwilding wrote:
gavilan wrote:
If I dropped something on the floor, I'm sure f@ck or sh/t would slip out of my mouth.
Depends what you drop, I could think of a few things which I would use the above. :lol: I was sort of thinking of Country boys kind of oops :mrgreen:

Have to admit when I first read Gavilans post I though who the heck ever says oops. Only around two hours later I spattered some red wine sauce on a white top and out came oops :lolno:

As with anything else in another language, a matter of context and differing situations.

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby anyroads » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:47 pm

How about the slightly old fashioned...

Maldita sea !

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby markwilding » Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:05 am

katy wrote:
As with anything else in another language, a matter of context and differing situations.
I definitely don't say ooops when I stub one of my little toes. :(
More than one expletive then. :twisted:

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Re: Spanish for 'oops'

Postby crayfishx » Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:43 am

rafiki wrote:¡UY!
It may differ region to region, but yes, this is the closest translation I know of and hear regularly. Pronounced "ooo-eei"


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