What does the Spanish phrase "que onda" mean?
2006-09-08 15:40:10 · 9 answers · asked by dchoker 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
What's Up!!
2006-09-08 16:03:41 · answer #1 · answered by strosgirl_5_30_06 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is Spanish slang for what's happening. It literally means What's waving; just like English the real meaning does not make much sense when you use it as slang.
I am a high school Spanish teacher, but I once lived in Mexico as an exchange student. Que onda is something that the teens would say. I was not taught it in school. It is much cooler than what you learn in school lol.
You can also say que buena onda or que mala onda and that is close to saying something like that's cool or that is not cool.
2006-09-08 15:48:28 · answer #2 · answered by Melanie L 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Que Onda
2016-09-30 07:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by riesgo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literally it means What Wave. But it translates into What's Up? My Dad has a response to it, Que Onda? Ni cuadrada ni redonda- triangular
What Wave? Not a square or a circle, triangular, lol, get's lost in translation.
2006-09-08 15:46:38 · answer #4 · answered by MzzandtheChuchuBees 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's up
2006-09-08 17:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by M. Angel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means What's Up?
2006-09-08 15:44:42 · answer #6 · answered by Black Sayuri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's up / How's it going? That kind of thing... It's used in Mexico.. (It litterally means "What wave".. haha)
2006-09-08 15:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by Kai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a Mexican phrase which is the equivalent to saying "What's up?" in English, more or less.
2006-09-08 17:11:58 · answer #8 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
que in spanish is a conjunction means than or that,it can also use for w questions, onda is wave
so it means that wave...he3
but actually is whats up..
2006-09-08 15:49:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And in Chile...
(While it generally means "What's up?" or "What's happening?" this phrase is more [but not entirely] literally understood as "What's the vibe"? A truly literal translation is "What wave?")
2006-09-08 15:46:04 · answer #10 · answered by M C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋