AR Spanish | Idioms and Slang

LUNFA | Argentinian Slang Guide

Lunfa is a shortened, affectionate version of “lunfardo”. It’s a way of referring lovingly to the richest and most expressive side of Rioplatense Spanish.

The goal of this guide is to enable you to navigate and make you fall in love with el lunfa.

In this guide, you’ll find idiomatic expressions grouped by what they express: rejection, surprise, joy, anger, doubt, exhaustion, hunger… all the things that populate our day to day.

For each communicative intent (for example, “no way” or “I’m hungry”), you’ll find several equivalent phrases that get the same point across. Some are neutral, others very informal, and many will make you wonder how that came to be an idiom.