Anything in spanish
pronunciation: kuɑlkieɹ̩koʊsɑ part of speech: noun
anything1 = cualquier cosa.
Example: For a year or two, any wholesome grass-roots group, aiming at anything from wholemeal bread to revolution, would tap one public agency or another.more:
» almost anything = casi todo, casi cualquier cosa.
Example: This company will let you pay for almost anything with your cell phone.» anything and everything = absolutamente todo.
Example: For instance, if children are doing a project work on dogs, they will hunt out anything and everything that so much as mentions them and the bits thus mined are assiduously transcribed into project folders.» anything between + Número + and/to + Número = entre + Número + y + Número.
Example: They produce anything between 9 to 10 millions barrel per day andy at a pinch could throw a couple millions more on the market.» anything but = cualquier cosa que no sea.
Example: First the desire to read is sapped, then the will, and finally stamina to tackle anything but short, and immediately useful, passages.» anything goes = todo vale, todo sirve, todo es válido.
Example: In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, god knows, anything goes!.» anything other than = otra cosa que no sea.
Example: With the exception of trailer libraries, mobile library stops are usually of too short a duration to allow for anything other than book lending transaction.» be anything but + Adjetivo = no estar nada + Adjetivo, no ser nada + Adjetivo.
Example: One of them snipped Ben Kline's life short, and Marla's determined to get to the root of a case that's anything but cut and dried.» before anything else = ante todo, antes de todo, antes que nada.
Example: But realizing this opportunity will, before anything else, require a huge investment in connectivity.» capable of anything = capaz de hacer cualquier cosa, capaz de todo.
Example: While in traditional working society, everybody was kept busy, and out of trouble, a leisured society would be one in which people roamed free and unfettered, and capable of absolutely anything.» do + anything = hacer cualquier cosa.
Example: The premise of the show is that gold diggers would do anything to marry money.» give + anything if = dar cualquier cosa si/por.
Example: I would give anything if I had had a chance to bend an elbow with Ralph and swap a few stories.» just about anything = casi cualquier cosa.
Example: Learn to cook just about anything either with recipes or without.» most anything = casi todo, casi cualquier cosa.
Example: Store liquids, powders, or most anything safely in plastic buckets with lids that really make an airtight seal.» put up with + anything = aguantar cualquier cosa, tolerar cualquier cosa.
Example: We are made to feel that we have to put up with anything just because our mothers and grandmothers did.anything2 = algo.
Example: It may or may not be too late to do anything about it.more:
» anything else = algo más, nada más. [En frase positiva "algo más", en frase negativa "nada más"]
Example: His work is criticized for its triviality and quantity (the argument goes that children need never and might never read anything else) = En frase positiva "algo más", en frase negativa "nada más".» anything else = cualquier otra cosa.
Example: Now this may sound somewhat Draconian as an approach to the problem, but I really do believe, and I have studied this and thought about it very carefully for many years, that this is the only answer, that anything else is just an amelioration of the problem and is building up problems for the future.» if anything = en todo caso, si cabe.
Example: If anything, it interposes an additional link in the communication chain, with its attendant 'interface' problems.» if that counts for anything = si eso sirve de algo, si eso cuenta para algo.
Example: I have done absolutely no studying tonight, but my kitchen is spotlessly clean if that counts for anything.» more than anything else = más que nada, ante todo.
Example: But more than anything else, I'd like to thank him for humbling me, for talking to me and showing me the world through a different lens.» or anything like that = o algo parecido, o algo parecido, o algo así, o cosas por el estilo.
Example: Usually, when I have trouble sleeping it's not because I feel wrong or anything like that, it just happens.» quite apart from anything else = además de otras cosas.
Example: Quite apart from anything else, it is drearily boring, the tedium exacerbated by the grating monotony of Stein's voice.anything3 = nada. [En frase negativa]
Example: As an inveterate user of the British Museum Library he was able to confirm that 'a library is not worth anything without a catalogue'.more:
» the world doesn't owe + Pronombre + anything = el mundo no + Pronombre + debe nada.
Example: The world doesn't owe you anything and the sooner you get that through your thick skull, the less it'll hurt.» without having anything to do with it = sin comérselo ni bebérselo, sin comerlo ni beberlo, sin haberlo buscado.
Example: You can always say you've been changed, but really, September 11 is the first thing that changed me without having anything to do with it.