Spanish: Clothes

Learn how to describe clothes and colours in Spanish with these handy words and phrases.

If you want to talk about what you wear in Spanish, a really useful verb to know is llevar (to wear).

If you want to say 'I wear' something, you can use llevo.

By adding a noun afterwards, you can explain what type of clothes you wear, for example:

• Llevoun jersey - I wear a jumper

• Llevoun abrigo - I wear a coat

Have a look at the Spanish vocabulary for clothes and see how many you can remember:

Remember that in Spanish the ll sound is pronounced as a ‘y’.

Llevo una camisa - I wear a shirt

You have seen clothes items with indefinite articles ( un and una which both mean 'a') and here we have the same examples but with definite articles ( el and la which both mean 'the').

You can use these for the clothing and classroom instructions below.

Here are some verbs you can use with clothes and everyday classroom routines.

Examples:

• Poneos los zapatos - Put on your shoes
• Colgad las chaquetas - Hang up your jackets
• Cambiad los zapatos - Change your shoes

If you want to describe what someone else is wearing you can use lleva (he/she wears), for example:

• Él lleva una bufanda - He wears a scarf

• Ella lleva una falda - She wears a skirt

Remember to use un for masculine singular nouns and una for feminine.

For plural nouns, there are two ways to say 'some' in Spanish.

You use unos for masculine nouns, for example:

And unas for feminine nouns, for example:

Did you know?

The verb you use to say you wear something ( llevar) can also mean 'to carry', for example:

Llevo un paraguas - I carry an umbrella