Spanish: Clothes and accessories

If you want to talk about what you wear in Spanish, a really useful verb to know is llevar (to wear).

If you want to say ‘I wear’ something, you can use llevo.

By adding a noun afterwards, you can explain what type of clothes you wear, for example:

Llevo un jersey – I wear a jumper

Llevo un abrigo – I wear a coat

Have a look at the Spanish vocabulary for clothes and see how many you can remember:

Remember that in Spanish the ll sound is pronounced as a ‘y’.

Llevo una camisa – I wear a shirt

If you want to describe what someone else is wearing you can use lleva (he/she wears), for example:

Él lleva una bufanda – He wears a scarf

Ella lleva una falda – She wears a skirt

Remember to use un for masculine singular nouns and una for feminine.

For plural nouns, there are two ways to say 'some' in Spanish.

You use unos for masculine nouns, for example:

And unas for feminine nouns, for example:

Did you know?

The verb you use to say you wear something ( llevar) can also mean ‘to carry’, for example:

Llevo un paraguas – I carry an umbrella