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/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "chah" (as in "chat") + "CHYE"/
An exclamation for intense cold from the Quechua-influenced Spanish of the Andes. Used in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia when the mountain cold hits without warning, it is the local equivalent of "brrr!" or "it's absolutely freezing!" So perfectly expressive that even non-Quechua speakers pick it up naturally.
“Brr! How do you shower with ice-cold water that early?”
“Achachay, it is seriously freezing in Quito today.”
/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "chah" (as in "chat") + "CHYE"/
A Quechua exclamation used in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to express how cold it is. It's the instinctive shout when freezing air hits you and your body reacts before your brain does.
“Brrr! It's freezing, close the window!”
“It's so cold up in the mountains, I can't feel my fingers.”
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/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "chah" (as in "chat") + "CHYE"/
An exclamation for intense cold from the Quechua-influenced Spanish of the Andes. Used in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia when the mountain cold hits without warning, it is the local equivalent of "brrr!" or "it's absolutely freezing!" So perfectly expressive that even non-Quechua speakers pick it up naturally.
“Brr! How do you shower with ice-cold water that early?”
“Achachay, it is seriously freezing in Quito today.”
/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "chah" (as in "chat") + "CHYE"/
A Quechua exclamation used in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to express how cold it is. It's the instinctive shout when freezing air hits you and your body reacts before your brain does.
“Brrr! It's freezing, close the window!”
“It's so cold up in the mountains, I can't feel my fingers.”
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Achantado
Shut down, drained of energy, and completely unmotivated to do anything. Used in Colombia and Venezuela to describe someone in a state of total apathy where nothing, not even good news, can get them off the couch or wipe the bored look off their face.