Word of the Day 2|1|19 : ESTOY PEDO

estoy pedo / eh-stoy pedo / I am drunk

I figured we needed a better theme phrase than “no michelada” and “no pene” so there’s this. Pedo literally translates as “fart” so I have no idea where this slang came from. Alternately, estás pedo is “you’re drunk,” you know, if you feel the need to be all judgy.

A brief paragraph about the two forms of “I am” in Spanish — estoy and soy. Estoy is when you are some adjective — estoy bien (I am good), estoy mal (I am sick), estoy pedo. Soy, like the Beck song (or the Ritchie Valens song), is for when you are some noun — soy un perdedor (I’m a loser baby), soy capitan (soy capitan), soy Canadiense.