How to Say ‘We've run out of it right now’ in Mexican Spanish
Ahorita se nos acabó
ah-oh-REE-tah seh nohs ah-kah-BOH
[ah-oh-REE-tah seh nohs ah-kah-BOH]
💬 Usage Tip: se nos acabó is literally "it ran out on us". It frames running out as something that just happened, with no one to blame. The same pattern works elsewhere: se me olvidó "I forgot (it slipped my mind)".
🇲🇽 In Mexico: ahorita can mean "right now" or "in a bit", depending on context. Here it means "at the moment": they're out today, but it will probably come back.
Phrase Breakdown
Ahorita
[ah-oh-REE-tah]
right now
Mexican diminutive of 'ahora'; here means 'at the moment'.
Ahorita no tenemos pan.
Right now we don't have bread.
se nos acabó
seh nohs ah-kah-BOH
we ran out (of it)
Literally 'it ran out on us'. Stress the last syllable: 'seh nohs ah-kah-BOH'.
Se nos acabó la leche.
We ran out of milk.
Words in this phrase
se
[seh]
(unplanned event marker)
Shows something happened unintentionally.
Se me olvidó la cartera.
I forgot my wallet.
nos
[nohs]
us
Used by a speaker to refer to themselves and one or more other people.
Nos dieron un premio.
They gave us a prize.
acabó
[ah-kah-BOH]
ran out
Past of 'acabar'; with 'se nos' means we ran out.
Se acabó el azúcar.
The sugar ran out.
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