currante
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]currante m or f (masculine and feminine plural currantes)
- hard-working
- Synonym: trabajador
Noun
[edit]currante m or f by sense (plural currantes)
- worker
- Synonyms: trabajador, currito
- 2015 September 17, “Cataluña extrema (IV)”, in El País[1]:
- Predominan los currantes ucranianos, rumanos y senegaleses, pero el ajetreo de los tornos contabiliza rutinariamente medio centenar de nacionalidades.
- Ukrainian, Romanian, and Senegalese workers predominate, but the rush of the turnstiles routinely counts fifty nationalities.
Further reading
[edit]- “currante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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