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birra
🇦🇷 Spanish slang from Argentina
What does “birra” mean?
beer
Example
“¿Vamos a tomar unas birras?”
Shall we have some beers?
Good to know
From Italian; also used in Spain and Uruguay.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🎉 Going out🌮 Food
The textbook way to say it: cerveza
Heard in a conversation
A first date in Palermo
Juli Soy maestra. Se gana poca guita, pero los pibes me encantan.
I'm a teacher. The money is bad, but I love the kids.
Santi ¡Qué copado! Che, ¿pedimos otra birra?
That's so cool! Hey, shall we order another beer?
Juli Dale. Pero te aviso: si me empezás a chamuyar, me doy cuenta.
Sure. But I'm warning you: if you start sweet-talking me, I'll notice.
🍺 How other countries say “beer”
- 🇲🇽 chelaMexico
- 🇪🇸 cañaSpain · A small draught beer.
- 🇨🇴 polaColombia
- 🇵🇪 chelaPeru
- 🇨🇱 chelaChile
More from Argentina
- fernetfernet and coke, the party drink
- picadasnack board (cheese, cold cuts, olives)
- morfarto eat
- jodaparty, fun; joke
- transarto make out (with someone)
- levantarto pick someone up, to pull
- escabiobooze
- en pedodrunk
Songs from Argentina
- Lamento Boliviano · Enanitos VerdesLevel A2
- Color Esperanza · Diego TorresLevel A2
- De Música Ligera · Soda StereoLevel B1
- Adán y Eva · Paulo LondraLevel B1
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