A lot, very hard, or something incredibly complicated or surprising. In Spain, 'tela' is the word you reach for when something exceeds normal scale — the queue was tela, the price was tela, what he said was tela marinera. Hard to pin down exactly but impossible to misread.

To be trending, in fashion, at the peak of popularity. In Spain and Latin America cuando algo está en boga it's the thing everyone is talking about and doing right now.

The stereotype of the middle-aged Spanish man — conservative, opinionated, and convinced he knows everything about everything. The 'cuñado' gives unsolicited takes on politics, sports, economics, and medicine at every family gathering, always with total confidence.

A situationship — a romantic connection without labels or defined commitment, where both people act like a couple but neither wants to make it official. The word arrived directly from English into Spanish social media and named something millions of people were already living.