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/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "SEHR" (as in "set") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "tah" (as in "tar") + "REH" (as in "red") + "ah" (as in "art")/

Meaning

To do your homework, to complete the school assignments given to you for home. It is the activity every kid in Latin America dreaded, the thing standing between you and playing outside. "Hacer la tarea" defines the afternoons of millions of students across the Spanish speaking world.

Examples

Do your homework first and then you can play.

I did not do my homework and I am going to get scolded.

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Regional synonyms

A very handsome man, the highest masculine attractiveness compliment in the Caribbean. In the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, "papote" is what you call a man who is seriously fine: the kind of good-looking that makes people do a double take when he walks into a room.