| Hello there my friends from SpanishPod101.com! My name is Diego… |
| And I’m Efraín. |
| Hey, Efraín, did you know that there are so many ways to express fear in Spanish? |
| Oh, for real? Yeah, we have susto, temor, pánico, [*], miedo, and so on... |
| We have so many ways. So in this video, we’re going to show you the most common ways for expressing fear in Spanish. So… enjoy it! |
| So, let’s start with fear. Keep in mind that in Spanish, you have or you give fear. So, you don’t scare, you give fear, and you’re not afraid, you have fear. |
| And, let’s break down the word fear and the first one we have is temer. |
| Exactly! So, temer is the word that you use for specific fear, kind of a haunting and deep-seated feeling. |
| So for example, you may use it in a situation like… |
| Temo que este video no tenga muchas vistas. |
| And that’s the same as… |
| Mi temor es que este video no tenga muchas vistas. |
| You can also use temer in kind of a formal situation and it works the same as in English where fear or “I’m afraid that…” |
| So for example… temor - Imagine this; my girlfriend doesn’t want to speak with me anymore because I’m afraid that I said something bad to her. So in this situation, I will say… |
| Temo que le haya dicho algo malo a mi novia. |
| Miedo, meanwhile, is a common sort of fear. So you have these fears of heights, of spiders, of the dark, of public speaking, and so on… In Spanish, you would say me da miedo... or tengo miedo de [*]. Remember that these things give you fear. |
| For example… |
| Me dan miedo… me dan, me dan miedo las arañas. |
| Me dan miedo los escorpiones. |
| Tengo miedo de la oscuridad. |
| And this… and this is miedo. |
| Yeah, exactly! Exactly! So, now, the next word is asustar, and that’s basically what I just did. So, the word asustar, we...we could say that it is a sudden fear. And for that, we have the verb asustar or even dar susto or the noun, just susto. Now, keep in mind something; in English, you will translate this as “to scare,” but in English, remember that scary is also a deep-seated feeling. So, you will say in English, “Spiders scare me.” But in Spanish, it will be more like… |
| Tengo miedo de las arañas. |
| Or |
| Me dan miedo las arañas. |
| You will only use asustar or dar susto or susto in this shock, in a sudden fear. |
| Qué susto me diste! |
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| Huh! |
| Next word is espantar. Espantar is pretty similar to asustar, but it has a little bit difference. Espantar works for, works better for “to scare away.” |
| For example, in Spanish, we have the word espantapájaros, which literally means “to scare away birds.” |
| And be careful, we also have the word espantoso and it doesn’t mean scary. It rather means, “dreadful.” |
| Exactly, so don’t confuse. Dreadful is espantos, not scary. So, you might ask yourself, so, how should I convey scary? So, the thing is that in Spanish, we don’t have a word, a specific word for scary, but we… you can, you can say instead de miedo or que da miedo. So for example, if you want to say, “That’s a scary situation,” you would say… |
| Esa es una situación de miedo |
| Or |
| Esa es una situación que da miedo. |
| Now, another note; don’t say miedoso because miedoso is not scary. Miedoso is actually someone who is a “coward.” So, no seas miedoso. “Don’t be a coward” basically. |
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