Caliente or caluroso?

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Permalink Reply by Eduardo on October 19, 2009 at 5:51pm

Hello Winter

Well, the main difference between caliente and caluroso is that Caluroso is only used when you are talking about the weather from some place or day and also can be used when you are talking about a welcome or a greeting , and Caliente is used when you talk about an object or weather also.

For example:

Es un día caluroso-weather
La playa es un lugar muy caluroso-weather
Le mando un caluroso abrazo-greeting
El día esta caliente-weather
El cafe esta caliente-object
La plancha esta caliente-object

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Permalink Reply by Yero on October 19, 2009 at 9:09pm

Exactly. Although sometimes in informal speech you can do everything you want :P

To sum up:

* Caliente (hot) - adjective, used to describe things.

Té caliente = hot tea

* Caluroso (hot) - adjective, used to describe the weather, the air...

Un día caluroso = a hot day

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Permalink Reply by Neftali on November 13, 2009 at 12:48am

caliente is the adjective of an object, instead of caluroso, it is a condition. You can't say "la taza de cafe esta calurosa". "Ayer estuvo caluroso" stats more for a weather condition.

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