English Personality Vocabulary and Future Tenses

Posted on Mar 31, 2025 in English

Personality Adjectives

  • Broad-minded –> Mente abierta
  • Quiet –> Callado
  • Down-to-earth –> Realista
  • Diplomatic –> Diplomático
  • Impetuous –> Impulsivo
  • Kind –> Amable / Bondadoso
  • Laid-back –> Relajado / Que se deja llevar
  • Modest –> Modesto
  • Outgoing –> Extrovertido
  • Serious –> Serio
  • Reserved –> Reservado
  • Calm –> Calmado
  • Resourceful –> Ingenioso / Apañado
  • Considerate –> Considerado
  • Curious –> Curioso
  • Insecure –> Inseguro
  • Creative –> Creativo
  • Moody –> De humor cambiante / Malhumorado
  • Practical –> Práctico
  • Resilient –> Resiliente
  • Sensible –> Sensato
  • Self-confident –> Seguro de sí mismo
  • Imaginative –> Imaginativo
  • Talkative –> Hablador
  • Reliable –> Fiable / Puedes confiar en él/ella
  • Tactful –> Con tacto / Discreto
  • Hard-working –> Trabajador
  • Relaxed –> Relajado
  • Selfish –> Egoísta (“Mío, mío y mío”)
  • Untrustworthy –> No fiable / No se puede confiar en él/ella
  • Big-headed –> Arrogante / Creído
  • Loyal –> Leal
  • Cheerful –> Alegre / Animado
  • Narrow-minded –> Mente cerrada / Intolerante
  • Easy-going –> Fácil de llevar / De trato fácil
  • Sensitive –> Sensible
  • Energetic –> Energético
  • Shy –> Tímido
  • Humble –> Humilde
  • Sociable –> Sociable
  • Introverted –> Introvertido
  • Tactless –> Sin tacto / Indiscreto
  • Loud –> Ruidoso / Que habla alto

Personality Idioms

  • A big mouth –> Bocazas
  • A bright spark –> Listo / Ingenioso (normalmente irónico)
  • A great laugh –> Muy divertido / Gracioso
  • A live wire –> Energético / Inquieto / Nervioso
  • A pain in the neck –> Un fastidio / Una molestia / Un pesado
  • A party animal –> El alma de la fiesta / Fiestero
  • A social butterfly –> Sociable / Que le gusta alternar
  • A wallflower –> Que pasa desapercibido / Marginado (en fiestas)

Noun Suffixes

People

  • Invent –> Inventor
  • Science –> Scientist
  • Lead –> Leader
  • Write –> Writer
  • Psychology –> Psychologist
  • Research –> Researcher
  • Assist –> Assistant
  • Music –> Musician
  • History –> Historian

Abstract/Concrete Nouns

  • Active –> Activity
  • Shy –> Shyness
  • Appear –> Appearance
  • Distract –> Distraction
  • Bored –> Boredom
  • Lazy –> Laziness
  • Concentrate –> Concentration
  • Prefer –> Preference
  • Connect –> Connection
  • Relate –> Relation
  • Creative –> Creativity
  • Relate –> Relationship
  • Depress –> Depression
  • Relax –> Relaxation
  • Free –> Freedom
  • Sense –> Sensitivity
  • Involve –> Involvement

Making Comparisons

  1. Use more … than or less … than to compare two unequal things.
  2. Use as … as to indicate equality. Example: Dogs are as clever as cats.
  3. Use not as … as or not so … as to indicate inequality (the first item has less of the quality than the second). Example: Animals aren’t as intelligent as humans.
  4. Use the + comparative, the + comparative to show two things changing together or proportionally. Example: The faster I run, the more tired I feel.
  5. Use comparative and comparative (e.g., better and better) to describe situations that are continuously increasing or decreasing. Example: Things are getting better and better.

Articles: A/An, The

A/An

  • Use with singular countable nouns when mentioning something for the first time, or to indicate one of many. Example: I’ve got a computer. It’s a laptop.
  • Use to state someone’s profession. Example: He’s a scientist.

The

  • Use with countable (singular and plural) and uncountable nouns to refer to something or somebody previously mentioned. Example: I’ve got a computer. The computer’s really fast.
  • Use for specific things or people already known to the listener/reader. Example: The computer I bought was quite cheap.
  • Use for unique things. Examples: The Sun, the government, the floor.
  • Use with superlative adjectives and adverbs, and with ordinals like ‘first’, ‘last’. Example: He was the first person to arrive.

Future Tenses

Be Going To

  1. Future plans and intentions (already decided before speaking).
  2. Predictions based on present evidence (you can see it’s likely to happen).

Will/Won’t

  1. Objective truths or generally accepted facts about the future.
  2. Spontaneous decisions made at the moment of speaking.
  3. Predictions based on opinion, belief, or experience.
  4. Offers, promises, requests, refusals.

Present Continuous

  1. Confirmed future arrangements and plans, often with a specific time/place.

Present Simple

  1. In future time clauses after conjunctions like when, as soon as, until, after, before. Example: When I go to university, I will study chemistry.
  2. Actions scheduled on a timetable or fixed routine.

Future Continuous

Structure: will/won’t + be + verb-ing

  1. Activities that will be in progress at a specific time in the future (unfinished).

Future Perfect Simple

Structure: will/won’t + have + past participle

  1. Activities that will be completed before or by a specific time in the future. Often used with ‘by’.

Future Perfect Continuous

Structure: will/won’t + have been + verb-ing

  1. Duration of an activity up to a specific point in the future. Often used with ‘by’ or ‘for’ to emphasize length of time.