Vesre

Question 1

Vamos a tomar un feca después de clase.

Answer 1

FECA = café. One of the most classic and widely used vesre words. Completely natural in everyday CABA speech. ‘Un feca con leche’ is a very porteño order.

Question 2

Ese tipo es un jermu de primera.

Answer 2

JERMU = mujer (woman). Syllables inverted: mu-jer → jer-mu. Used in lunfardo, somewhat old fashioned but still heard and recognized.

Question 3

¿Fuiste al gotán anoche?

Answer 3

GOTÁN = tango. The most famous vesre word internationally — the band Gotan Project took their name from it. Tan-go → go-tan.

Question 4

Che, ¿tenés un faso?

Answer 4

FASO = sofa… actually no — FASO = cigarette (from ‘fasito’, itself lunfardo). A reminder that not all lunfardo is strict vesre — some words have murkier origins.

Question 5

Está re lleno el boliche esta noche.

Answer 5

BOLICHE = from ‘bolliche’ — in Argentina means nightclub / bar / disco. Essential CABA nightlife vocabulary. Not strict vesre but deeply lunfardo.

Question 6

Me comí un ricotón enorme.

Answer 6

RICOTÓN = from torci… actually RICOTÓN = a big portion / a lot. Demonstrates how vesre words can develop their own extended meanings beyond simple inversion.

Question 7

Vive en el tercer longi del edificio.

Answer 7

LONGI = piso (floor/level). Pi-so → not quite… actually from ‘longobardo’ — shows lunfardo’s complex etymology beyond pure vesre.

Question 8

¿Viste que ese chabón está al joraca?

Answer 8

JORACA = Carajo - demonstrates vesre used in expressions. Some vesre words only survive in fixed phrases rather than standalone use.

Question 9

Tiene una feca re amarga ese bar.

Answer 9

FECA = café. Reinforces the most useful vesre word. ‘Amarga’ = bitter. ‘Una feca amarga’ = a bitter black coffee, very CABA.

Question 10

El pibe labura de noche en un boliche.

Answer 10

LABURAR = to work (from Italian lavorare — not vesre but essential lunfardo). BOLICHE = nightclub. Both deeply embedded in CABA everyday speech.

Question 11

¿Cómo estuvo el otelo anoche?

Answer 11

OTELO = teatro (theater). Tea-tro → not exact… actually demonstrates that some apparent vesre has variant inversions depending on syllable stress.

Question 12

Ese traje está re mishiadura.

Answer 12

MISHIADURA = poverty / being broke. From ‘mishio’ (poor) — lunfardo that demonstrares how vesre words generate whole word families.

Question 13

Vamos a morfar algo en ese restarán.

Answer 13

RESTARÁN = restaurant. Res-tau-rant → rearranged. Shows vesre applied to borrowed words — even foreign loanwords get the vesre treatment in lunfardo.

Question 14

Che, ¿me das un cacho de pan?

Answer 14

CACHO = piece / chunk. Not vesre but essential Rioplatense vocabulary — ‘un cacho de’ = a bit of / a piece of. Used constantly in CABA.

Question 15

Está re bueno el cuidao ese lugar.

Answer 15

CUIDAO = not vesre — shows that Rioplatense informal speech also drops final consonants (cuidado → cuidao, helado → helao). Common in fast casual speech.

Question 16

Voy al súper a buscar unas migas.

Answer 16

Not vesre — demonstrates that recognizing what ISN’T vesre is as important as knowing what is. Lunfardo, vesre, and general colloquial speech all overlap in CABA.

Question 17

Ese barrio está lleno de bardos.

Answer 17

BARDO = problem / trouble / mess. From ‘bardo’ (bard) but used in Rioplatense to mean a chaotic situation. ‘¡Qué bardo!’ = what a mess!

Question 18

¡Qué golazo metió ese pibe!

Answer 18

GOLAZO = an amazing goal. The -azo suffix in Argentine Spanish intensifies nouns. Golazo, temazo, locazo — productive suffix worth knowing.

Question 19

Fuimos a bailar al boliche hasta las seis.

Answer 19

BOLICHE = nightclub / club. Buenos Aires nightlife notoriously starts late — going out at midnight is normal, finishing at 6am is not unusual on weekends.

Question 20

Ese vecino es un bardero de primera.

Answer 20

BARDERO/A = someone who causes trouble / drama / chaos. From bardo. The -ero suffix creates agent nouns in lunfardo: bardero, versero, quilombero.

Question 21

¿Vas a la facha del edificio o entrás por atrás?

Answer 21

FACHA = front / façade. In Rioplatense also means appearance/look (‘tiene buena facha’ = looks good). Demonstrates lunfardo words with multiple meanings.

Question 22

Me re cayó mal ese coso que dijo.

Answer 22

COSO = thing / whatsit / thingamajig. When you can’t remember the word for something in CABA, ‘coso’ is your best friend. Equivalent to ‘cosa’ but vaguer and more colloquial.

Question 23

Dale, te veo en la esquina del boliche.

Answer 23

DALE = okay / sure / let’s go. The single most Rioplatense word in existence. Used as agreement, farewell, encouragement, and filler. Master this one above all others.