Most people are used to this adjective meaning that someone is handsome or good-looking. Guapo is a word that trips up a lot of visitors to the Dominican Republic. Use them to add some Dominican sazón to your Spanish! 1.
So without further ado, here are four words that don’t mean what you think here in the DR. These dominicanismos can confuse even the most advanced Spanish student who is used to hearing these words in different contexts. Like any language, Spanish is subject to regional peculiarities, in the Dominican Republic we’ve adopted Taíno (indigenous) and African words and we’ve also repurposed Spanish words in some pretty interesting ways. Today we’re going to talk about d ominicanismos or the words, expressions, and phrases that are common and unique to Spanish spoken in the Dominican Republic.
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