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Bookmark or Share- chamuyar / chamullar, chamuyero /chamullero | WordReference ForumsDec 5, 2013. #5. And as reliable as wiktionary is, it says: chamullar (first-person singular present chamullo, first-person singular preterite chamullé, past participle chamullado) (Chile, Argentina, Peru, colloquial) to lie, to seduce or convince someone making use of lies. C.
- FR: venir de l'/d'Angleterre, de (la) France, du Canada - article ...I've read in a French text book that > preceeds the name of a feminine country starting with a consonant and > preceeds the name of a country (masculine or femnine) starting with a vowel.
- sit an exam / sit for an exam - WordReference ForumsDec 5, 2016. #7. I agree with ATLGS, above. Americans generally do not 'sit exams' or 'sit for exams'; both forms, transitive and intransitive strike me as British. There is some debate about 'for', “Sit for” (an exam) but my impression from reading the respondents is that both forms turn up in the UK. Further examples:
- Argentine/Argentinian/Argentinean - WordReference ForumsARGENTINE: adj. of Argentina, its people, or culture n. a native or inhabitant of Argentina. Also Argentinian. the Argentine [now chiefly Brit.] Argentina As you can see, Argentinian does exist in proper American English, given that Webster's is an American dictionary. Saludos.
- valores y duplés [dublés] - WordReference ForumsHola a todos, pero en especial a los argentinos y uruguayos, a quienes va dirigida esta pregunta. Pese a ser de Buenos Aires, nunca entendí el significado de la frase del tango Cambalache: "valores y duplés". ¿Qué es un duplé? Gracias.
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