madrugar
Language: Spanish · [maðɾuˈɣaɾ] · Pronunciation: mah-droo-GAR
Pronunciation: Speaker: Emanuelps27
Recorder: Emanuelps27 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
to get up very early, in a single verb — early rising
The story
Spanish compresses a whole English clause, to get up early, into one verb, then argues about it in proverbs: God helps those who madrugan, yet no amount of madrugar makes dawn come any sooner. English never got further than the early riser.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Spanish
- What's the opposite?
- Trasnochar (to stay up all night)
- Where would you hear it?
- A market trader's alarm going off at four
- What does it mean?
- To get up before the sun does
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