Un reloj que suena para despertarte.
A clock that rings to wake you up.
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See how the word “despertador” is used in sentences
Mi despertador suena a las siete. — My alarm clock rings at seven.
Tiré el despertador de la mesita de noche sin querer. — I knocked the alarm clock off the nightstand.
¿Todavía usas un despertador? — Do you still use an alarm clock?
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testBuilt the way Spanish builds the names of tools: despertar plus -dor, the thing that wakes you — the same suffix as in secador, tostadora, ordenador. Once the pattern is visible a good deal of appliance vocabulary turns into arithmetic.
The verb behind it comes as a pair. Despertar is transitive and takes an object: despiértame a las siete, wake me at seven. Despertarse is the reflexive for waking up by yourself: me desperté tarde. Phones have eaten into the noun, and poner la alarma is now the ordinary way to talk about a morning alarm — but the object on the nightstand is still a despertador and never an alarma.
alarma alarm
The warning device or the feeling. Ask a shop for una alarma and you will be shown a burglar alarm.
reloj clock, watch
The plain timepiece. A despertador is a reloj with one extra job.
despertarse to wake up
The reflexive verb the noun implies. What the despertador makes you do.
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