What does “hasta el cansancio” mean in Spanish?

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hasta el cansancio
Spanish idiom
over and over / ad nauseam — literally “to the point of exhaustion.”

Hasta el cansancio means doing something repeatedly until everyone is sick of it — “over and over,” “ad nauseam,” “till you’re blue in the face.” It attaches to a verb of saying or doing: repetir / decir / insistir hasta el cansancio. The literal image, “all the way to tiredness,” carries the exasperation: not just often, but so often it wears people out. A crisp upgrade over plain muchas veces.

The diplomat says the president has repeated a point “hasta el cansancio” — hammered it home relentlessly. It implies the repetition is excessive or wearying, so it often carries a faint edge of complaint. Compare the close cousin hasta la saciedad (Spain, “until satiety”) and the blunter una y otra vez (“again and again”); hasta el cansancio adds the specific flavor of weariness from all that repeating.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this B2 Spanish listening practice video?

90.5%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Spanish words
Most of the words in this video are common Spanish words.

How common in written Spanish

84.5%
Top 1,000
90.5%
Top 2,000
97.3%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken Spanish

91.6%
Top 1,000
97.3%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Words for talking
This video uses words people often say in Spanish.

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than B2. Here is what they mean.

fracturado
1×
Not in top 5,000
broken
reconstruyendo
1×
Not in top 5,000
rebuilding
internamente
1×
Not in top 5,000
internally
entenderlo
1×
Not in top 5,000People say this a lot
to understand it
iraní
2×
Not in top 5,000
Iranian
en buena fe
1×
with honest intentions or sincerity

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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