Spanish Word of the Week

September 13, 2008 at 11:58 pm Leave a comment

So, we start today’s word of the week segment of our blog by welcoming back all students. Summer’s over and you all know what that means…… back to work!

We will soon have a audible word of the week segment as part of our Spanishomework.com list of services; so stay tuned.

Today’s word of the week is:
Fungir
(phoon-heer)

Translation
To exercise a position or job

Sample sentence:
Mi tío Jorge empezará a fungir como secretario de nuestra organización el próximo martes.

Uncle George will start to exercise as our organization’s secretary next tuesday.

Notice how “fungir” is specifically descriptive of the verb “ejercer” or to exercise. Remember that Spanish is so broad that there’s many approved words that describe the same thing.

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