Hello hello! How’re things with you? I hope you’re doing fantastic and feeling energetic. In case you aren’t, today’s word might be exactly what you need to express it.
Fiaca is a word that belongs to a group of words that are unique to RPS: those we incorporated from Italian immigrants.
And over the years we’ve made sure the word stays around. Fiaca is the word you’d use when you’re feeling sluggish.
- “Tengo fiaca.”
Sometimes we use the indefinite article una before the word. You can’t have two fiacas, but in Spanish it’s quite common to express a feeling like this with un/una.
- “Tengo una fiaca hoy…”
(The same as “tengo un sueño…” or “tengo un hambre…”)
Very similarly, we sometimes prefer to say:
“Hoy estoy con una fiaca terrible.”
And then there’s one other possibility which sounds kind of cute. When you have a free-ish day ahead you, you can cammit yourself to doing nothing like this:
“Hoy voy a hacer fiaca todo el día.”
Whatever the case, I’m sure FIACA can become part of your vocabulary.
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