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/Pronunciation pending — Guaraní word/
The Guaraní word for "what," "thing," or "matter," used in Paraguay as part of Jopara: the everyday natural blend of Guaraní and Spanish that most Paraguayans speak. You will hear "mba'e" woven into sentences that are otherwise entirely in Spanish, a reminder that Guaraní is a co-official language very much alive in daily life.
“¿Mba'e hacés?”
“What are you doing?”
“No sé qué mba'e pasó ahí.”
“I don't know what happened there.”
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/Pronunciation pending — Guaraní word/
The Guaraní word for "what," "thing," or "matter," used in Paraguay as part of Jopara: the everyday natural blend of Guaraní and Spanish that most Paraguayans speak. You will hear "mba'e" woven into sentences that are otherwise entirely in Spanish, a reminder that Guaraní is a co-official language very much alive in daily life.
“¿Mba'e hacés?”
“What are you doing?”
“No sé qué mba'e pasó ahí.”
“I don't know what happened there.”
Toche
A dummy, a fool, someone who doesn't get the obvious and makes poor decisions. In Colombia, calling someone toche is a direct insult to their intelligence, not violent, but definitively dismissive.