Haciendo reír a un militar por un like
A2 Spanish listening practice · Latin American Spanish, neutral (no strong regional accent) · Curated for beginners
What does “darle like” mean in Spanish?
Latin American YouTubers and TikTokers end almost every clip with a fixed phrase: “tienen que darle like y suscribirse” (“you have to give it a like and subscribe”). The construction darle + the English noun like is classic Spanglish: a Spanish dative pronoun (“to it”) plus a borrowed YouTube vocabulary word, treated as a noun. Spain mostly uses dar me gusta for the same action; Latin America went with darle like.
The phrase has hardened into a creator-class formula across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and beyond. This street-prank reel uses it word-for-word at the end, the universal call-to-action of the Spanish-speaking internet creator economy.
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Spanish listening practice listening practice?
General Spanish frequency
Spoken Spanish frequency
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
- ▸In Latin American YouTube outros (Luisito Comunica, Yuya, Kimberly Loaiza)
- ▸In Spanish-language TikTok prank channels
- ▸In Latin American gaming streams
- ▸In Spanish-language marketing and ad copy
- ▸In Latin American podcast wrap-ups (Se Regalan Dudas, Leyendas Legendarias)