trabajo de clase
/tɾabaxo de klase/from spelling rules
In Spanish, classwork is translated as trabajo de clase.
The phrase refers specifically to school assignments that students complete during a lesson within the classroom.
What does it mean word for word?
The phrase is composed of trabajo (work or job), de (of) and clase (class).
Which one should you use?
Use trabajo de clase for assignments completed during school hours, whereas tarea is the standard term for homework done outside of class.
How does it change in a sentence?
To refer to multiple assignments, the noun trabajo is pluralized to trabajos, resulting in trabajos de clase.
Did you know?
- The word clase shares its history with the Latin word 'classis', which originally referred to a 'fleet' of ships rather than a group of students.
- When a teacher asks students to 'get to work' on their trabajo de clase, they might use the phrase manos a la obra, which literally means 'hands to the work'.
- The word trabajo descends from a root that once described a tool used for pulling or dragging, which eventually evolved into the concept of hard labor.
Examples in context
- Los alumnos deben entregar sus trabajos de clase al final de la semana.The students must submit their classwork by the end of the week.
- El trabajo de clase es muy fácil.The classwork is very easy.
- Debes terminar el trabajo de clase hoy.You must finish the classwork today.
- Mañana entregaremos el trabajo de clase.We will hand in the classwork tomorrow.
Example conversation
Two students are talking in the school hallway.
- Lucía¿Terminaste el trabajo de clase, Mateo?Did you finish the classwork, Mateo?
- MateoNo, todavía me falta la mitad.No, I still have half left.
- LucíaYo también necesito más tiempo.I also need more time.
- MateoEs un trabajo de clase muy largo.It is a very long classwork.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries clase, de, trabajo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
