yunta
🇨🇱 Spanish slang from Chile
What does “yunta” mean?
best friend, partner in crime
Example
“El Pato es mi yunta desde el colegio.”
Pato's been my best mate since school.
Good to know
From the yoke that joins two oxen.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🫂 Friends
The textbook way to say it: mejor amigo
🤝 How other countries say “buddy, close friend”
- 🇲🇽 cuateMexico
- 🇪🇸 colegaSpain
- 🇨🇴 llaveColombia
- 🇵🇷 panaPuerto Rico
- 🇨🇺 socioCuba
- 🇵🇪 pataPeru
- 🇻🇪 panaVenezuela · Same as in Puerto Rico.
More from Chile
- weóndude; idiot
- cabro / cabrakid, young person
- hacer una vacato chip in, to pool money
- ¿Cachai?Get it? / You know?
- powell, then (emphasis)
- bacáncool, great
- pololo / pololaboyfriend / girlfriend
- fomeboring, lame
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