Archive for June 19th, 2009

Spanish Phrase: No funciona

Author: Johns Smith

Spanish Phrase: No funciona

Pronunciation: no foon-thyona

Translation:
Does not work/ Is not working.

If you’re booked at a local hotel, there would be instances when you do not know exactly why something is not working. It could be the air conditioning, the lights or the heating. So how would you say to a staff or the manager that something is not working? Here goes.

If you want to say that the light doesn’t work, you say “La luz no funciona.” If there’s a problem with the air conditioning, you say “El aire acoondicionado no funciona.”