Parar la actividad para recuperar fuerzas.
Stop activity to recover your strength.
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Necesito descansar un rato después del viaje. — I need to rest a while after the trip.
¿Descansaste bien anoche? — Did you rest well last night?
Descansen cinco minutos y seguimos. — Rest for five minutes and we'll continue.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testBuilt from des- and cansar, to tire — literally to un-tire yourself, which describes the verb better than rest does. It is what you do between efforts, and it does not mean sleeping: Spanish has dormir for that, and you can descansar sitting in a chair with your eyes open.
Two set phrases carry the word. Que descanses is the ordinary Spanish good night, said to someone heading for bed. Descanse en paz, shortened to DEP, is rest in peace on a headstone. And beware the other English rest: the rest of the money, the rest of the day is el resto, a word with no connection to this verb at all.
el resto the remainder
The other English rest, and unrelated: the rest of the day is el resto del día, never el descanso.
dormir to sleep
Descansar can be done awake. Dormir cannot, and the two are never interchangeable.
relajarse to relax
About the state of mind. Descansar is about getting your strength back.
cansado tired
The root, before the des- undoes it: cansar is to tire, descansar to untire.
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