giga
/xiɡa/from spelling rules
giga is the Spanish word for giga.
How do you pronounce it?
/xiɡa/
Did you know?
- In Spanish, the word giga can also refer to a 'jig', a type of lively folk dance accompanied by a fiddle or bagpipes.
- Spanish speakers often use gigas in the plural to refer to their monthly mobile data allowance, such as saying 'me quedan pocos gigas' to mean 'I have few gigs left'.
- Unlike English, where 'giga' is almost exclusively a prefix, in casual Spanish it is frequently used as a standalone noun to describe a unit of measure.
Examples in context
- El disco duro tiene una capacidad de almacenamiento de 500 gigabytes.The hard drive has a storage capacity of 500 gigabytes.
- El satélite se encuentra a una distancia de gigaómetros del planeta.The satellite is located at a distance of gigameters from the planet.
- Necesito un pendrive de al menos 8 gigas para guardar mis archivos.I need a flash drive of at least 8 gigs to store my files.
- El archivo tiene un giga de tamaño.The file is one giga in size.
- Solo me queda un giga en la memoria.I only have one giga left in the memory.
Example conversation
Mateo and Sofía are discussing digital storage on a laptop.
- Mateo¿Tienes espacio para el video?Do you have space for the video?
- SofíaNo, solo me queda un giga.No, I only have one giga left.
- MateoEso es muy poco para este archivo.That is very little for this file.
- SofíaTienes razón, borraré algunas fotos.You're right, I'll delete some photos.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
