La Casa de Papel (TV show) (Advanced): Professors speech S02E01

💬 With declarar la guerra, Spanish says it like "declare the war" to someone: nos ha declarado la guerra. Same pattern: les declararon la guerra a sus rivales.

💬 plantar cara is a fixed expression meaning "stand up to" or "face defiantly," not literally "plant face." You can reuse it with different targets: plantarle cara al jefe, plantar cara al miedo.

💬 plantar cara is a set phrase for standing up to someone or something. It works like a chunk: decidimos plantar cara, hay que plantar cara al problema.

💬 uno de los nuestros means "one of ours" or "one of our people." Same pattern: uno de los míos, una de las nuestras.

💬 Spanish often puts the person after the verb with a: han detenido a uno de los nuestros. You'll see the same in buscaron a mi hermano or rescataron a dos personas.

💬 A negative question like ¿No puedes dormir? often means "You can't sleep?" or "Can't you sleep?" based on context. Spanish uses this a lot to check what seems to be true: ¿No tienes hambre?.

💬 ven is the tú command of venir, and it's irregular. Compare vienes → ven, like tienes → ten.

💬 vamos a + verb is the everyday way to say "going to" do something: vamos a comer, voy a llamar. In speech it can also sound like a suggestion, as here.

💬 vamos a + verb can mean a real future, but in conversation it often works like "let's." So vamos a tomar más café is naturally "let's get some more coffee," not just "we are going to drink more coffee."

💬 Use hace + time to say how long something has been going on or how long ago it happened: hace dos meses, hace tres años. You don't need a word for "ago" here.

💬 Spanish uses hace for elapsed time: hace más de dos meses de esto. A very common swap is hace dos meses que no lo veo = "I haven't seen him for two months."

💬 se ha abierto is a common impersonal way to report official actions without naming who did them. You'll also see it in newsy language like se ha aprobado la ley.

💬 Spanish often uses se to sound impersonal in formal or official statements: no se ha abierto un sumario judicial. The focus is on what happened, not on who did it.

💬 Like se ha abierto, se ha solicitado is an impersonal official style: it means "has been requested" without saying by whom. This is very common in news and legal language.

💬 su can mean his, her, your, or their depending on context. Here su extradición means his extradition, but Spanish often leaves that to the situation.

💬 In se le patterns, le marks the person affected: no se le ha facilitado un abogado = "a lawyer has not been provided to him." You can swap the person: se me informó, se les entregó.

💬 This uses the impersonal passive you hear a lot in official language: se + indirect object + ha facilitado. You can reuse the pattern with other services: No se le ha informado = "He hasn't been informed."

💬 Tener + person/object + adjective often means "to keep someone/something in that state," not just "to have." Same pattern: Lo tienen ocupado = "They're keeping him busy."

💬 Paradero mostly appears in the set phrase en paradero desconocido, meaning someone's whereabouts are unknown. It's much more natural here than a literal idea like "in whereabouts."

💬 En paradero desconocido is a fixed expression used for a missing person whose location is unknown. You'll hear it in news and police-style language more than in everyday chat.

💬 Con toda probabilidad means "most likely" or "in all probability," not literally talking about math-like probability. It works as a set adverb phrase, like con toda seguridad = "almost certainly."

💬 Le están torturando uses le for the person affected, even though English would say "him." In Mexico you'll hear this a lot with people: Le están pegando = "They're hitting him/her."

💬 Así que is a very common way to say "so" when one thing leads to the next. For a quick swap: No contestó, así que me fui = "He didn't answer, so I left."

💬 After verbs of demanding or wanting, Spanish often uses a different verb form: exigimos que concluya. You'll see the same pattern in quiero que vengas and piden que cambie.

💬 Que concluya is the kind of verb form Spanish uses after demands, requests, or wishes. Inmediatamente can move around, but placing it before esta detención ilegal keeps the focus on how urgently it must end.

💬 Sea sometido is another demand-style form after que, and it's passive: literally "that he be subjected." In clearer everyday Spanish, the same idea might be said as que lo lleven ante la justicia.

💬 Con garantías de derecho is legal-register wording about due process and legal protections. In ordinary speech, people would usually say something more direct like con todas las garantías legales.

💬 Ha iniciado is the present perfect, often used for a completed action with current impact. In Mexico, everyday speech often prefers the simple past in many contexts, but this form is common in formal or dramatic statements.

💬 Ir a + infinitive is the everyday future: vamos a esconder. With nos, it becomes nos vamos a esconder = "we're going to hide," and with no, "we're not going to hide."

💬 Vamos a pelear is literally "we're going to fight," but in speeches it often works like "we will fight." Spanish uses this ir a future constantly, even for strong promises.

💬 Together with the previous word, this makes the fixed phrase golpe por golpe: "blow for blow," meaning retaliation in kind. You can think of it like "one strike answered with another."

💬 A lo grande means "on a big scale" or "big-time," not literally "to the big." You can reuse it beyond crime talk: celebrarlo a lo grande = "celebrate it in a big way."