Quick answer
Tengo que cortar el césped este fin de semana.
I have to mow the lawn this weekend. Spanish says cortar el césped, literally to cut the lawn, and el césped is masculine.
The words
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| el jardín | the garden |
| el césped | the lawn |
| la planta | the plant |
| la flor | the flower |
| el árbol | the tree |
| la maceta | the plant pot |
| la manguera | the hose |
| la regadera | the watering can |
| la semilla | the seed |
| la tierra | the soil |
| el seto | the hedge |
| la hoja | the leaf |
| el huerto | the vegetable garden |
| regar | to water |
| podar | to prune |
The phrases you will actually say
Worth knowing
Two words look like one thing and are not. El jardín is the ornamental garden with grass and flowers, while el huerto is where you grow food; a farmed irrigated plain, as around Valencia or Murcia, is la huerta. The lawn splits by region: el césped in Spain, el pasto in much of Latin America, la grama in the Caribbean and Central America. Watch la planta, which also means the floor of a building, so la planta baja is the ground floor and has nothing to do with gardening. La tierra is soil in this context, not the planet, which takes a capital letter. Spanish gardening is shaped by water: many municipalities restrict garden watering in dry summers, and shaded courtyards with potted plants, the patio tradition of Córdoba and Seville, exist precisely because lawns are hard to keep alive.
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