Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Sunday March 4, 2012
locura, noun:
madness, insanity
La locura, madness, is the noun derived from the adjective loco.
Huyen de la hambruna y la locura colectiva que asola sus países.
They’re fleeing the famine and collective madness devastating their countries.
Locura is used in a couple of very idiomatic phrases. First, es una locura, it’s crazy, it’s mad:
Es una locura pero tenía que venir.
I know it’s crazy, but I had to come.
And then in the phrase hacer locuras:
No hagas locuras.
Don’t do anything crazy or stupid.
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