I was in a Spanish learning forum earlier today and someone asked how do you say your breath stinks or you have bad breath in Spanish. And a...
I was in a Spanish learning forum earlier today and someone asked how do you say your breath stinks or you have bad breath in Spanish. And another person asked how do you say you have BO (body odor), your armpits stink, or your armpits smell in Spanish.
No one had answered the questions, but I thought I’d share the answers with my readers in case they
Have you ever had the need to tell someone this:
He has bad breath.
You have bad breath.
Your breath stinks.
And if you ever need to tell someone “you have bad breath” the following
The phrase can also be useful:
You need to rinse your mouth with baking soda and Listerine to disinfect it.
You should rinse your mouth with baking soda and Listerine to disinfect it.
Yes, both Listerine and Colgate toothpaste are sold in Spanish-speaking countries. But what I find so interesting is that in Spanish speaking countries they pronounce both Listerine and Colgate EXACTLY
in the same way that you would pronounce the words if they were from the Spanish language.
Here is another vocabulary word that may be helpful:
mouthwash – mouthwash
And this is how to say in Spanish you have BO (body odor) or your armpits stink:
You have bad sweat.
Your armpits/armpits stink.
(Literally, “you have bad sweat”).
“Having bad sweat” is probably the most universal way of saying in Spanish that someone has bad armpit odor or BO (body odor). But in Colombia, the term I’ve also heard is “tener grajo” for “your armpits stink.” For example…
When I was little I had a teacher who had a jackdaw.
When I was little, I had a teacher who had smelly armpits, stinky armpits, BO, etc.
I was wondering if “tener grajo” could be a phrase that is only used in Colombia. So I looked up the phrase in one of my Spanish dictionaries and it says that the phrase is used in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
There is one more phrase that I have heard used in Colombia, to say that one has BO. And that is
is “to have chucha”. “Chucha” literally means “opossum” as in the animal opossum.
Telling someone “Tienes chucha” (you have opossum) to say that one has BO makes a lot of sense considering that opossums, like “zorrillos” (skunks) or “skunks” (skunks), also have the ability to release a liquid stinky when threatened.
By the way, this is how you say armpit or armpit in Spanish.
Armpit (armpit, armpit)
Wash your armpit well so you don’t smell bad.
Wash your armpits well so you don’t stink.
In addition to “axila,” you may also hear Spanish speakers use the word “armpit” for the English word armpit.
You didn’t wash your armpit well. That’s why you have bad sweat.
You didn’t wash your armpits well. That’s why you have BO (body odor).
Before I go and while we’re on the subject of “olfactory” (the sense of smell), I have a mistake I want to share with you that I heard an American friend make here in Medellin, Colombia tonight.
when speaking Spanish.
My friend, his “girlfriend” and I were at a bar having a few drinks. And then his “girlfriend” came out of the bar to smoke a cigarette. When she returned, I heard my American friend tell her:
You smell like cigarettes.
That is NOT the correct way to say “you smell like cigarette” in Spanish.
In Spanish you must use the construction “oler a” to say that something or someone smells like something. You do NOT use “smell like”.
So I should have told him:
You smell a cigarette.
You smell like cigarettes.
The same rule applies when you want to say that something tastes like something. You must use the “know a” construction. You do NOT use “know how”.
This cake tastes like chocolate.
This cake tastes like chocolate.
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