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plata
🇨🇴 Spanish slang from Colombia
What does “plata” mean?
money
Example
“No tengo plata para salir.”
I don't have money to go out.
Good to know
Literally "silver"; the everyday word for money.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: dinero
Heard in a conversation
Arepas at the corner stall
Juli ¡De una, parce! Después de camellar todo el día, me merezco una.
Sure thing, bro! After working all day, I deserve one.
Santi ¿Cuánta plata tiene? Yo solo cargo tres lucas.
How much have you got? I've only got three thousand on me.
Juli Tranquilo, yo invito. Ay, pero qué oso, solo tengo un billete de cincuenta.
Relax, my treat. Oh, but how embarrassing, I've only got a fifty-thousand note.
💸 How other countries say “money, cash”
- 🇲🇽 lanaMexico
- 🇪🇸 pastaSpain
- 🇦🇷 guitaArgentina
- 🇵🇷 chavosPuerto Rico
- 🇨🇺 baroCuba
- 🇻🇪 realesVenezuela
- 🇨🇱 lucaChile · Exactly 1,000 pesos: 'cinco lucas' = 5,000.
More from Colombia
- lucasthousand pesos
- hacer una vacato chip in, to pool money
- el rebusquehustling for any work going
- estar varadoto be stuck: no work, no money or no ride
- un paloa million pesos
- amarradostingy, tight-fisted
- billetemoney, wealth ("he has billete": he is rich)
- parcebuddy, bro
Songs from Colombia
- La Camisa Negra · JuanesLevel A2
- Vida de Rico · CamiloLevel A2
- Waka Waka (Esto es África) · ShakiraLevel A2
- Mi Gente · J Balvin, Willy WilliamLevel A2
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