Alzar el brazo para indicar que quieres hablar.
To lift an arm to show you want to speak.
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Levanta la mano si estás de acuerdo. — Raise your hand if you agree.
Por favor, alza la mano si tienes alguna pregunta. — Please raise your hand if you have a question.
«Levantad la mano antes de hablar», dijo el profesor. — "Raise your hand before speaking," the teacher said.
¿Alzaste la mano durante el debate? — Did you raise your hand during the discussion?
Solo levanta la mano y me acerco. — Just raise your hand and I'll come over.
Te agradecería que alzaras la mano. — I would appreciate it if you could raise your hand.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testThe article is the lesson here. Spanish says levantar la mano — raise the hand — where English insists on raise your hand, and this is not a quirk of the phrase but a rule running through the language: body parts take the definite article, not a possessive. Me duele la cabeza, se rompió el brazo, lávate las manos.
Levantar is transitive and needs an object; levantarse is the reflexive and means getting yourself up, out of bed or out of a chair. Alzar means the same as levantar here and sounds a shade more formal. And note the British alternative in a classroom: put your hand up is far commoner there than raise your hand.
levantar to raise, to lift
Transitive: it always raises something. Without an object the sentence is unfinished.
levantarse to stand up, to get up
The reflexive. Levantarse la mano would mean raising your own hand off yourself.
mano hand
Feminine despite ending in -o — la mano — and one of the few nouns that does this.
brazo arm
What actually goes up. The Spanish definition of the phrase says alzar el brazo, and both are said.
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