queja
See also: quejá
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl edit
Adverb edit
queja
Preposition edit
queja
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from quejarse (“to complain”). Compare Portuguese queixa.
Noun edit
queja f (plural quejas)
- complaint, grievance, gripe, grumble
- (in the plural) complaining
- (colloquial) beef
Usage notes edit
- Queja is rarely used to mean a legal complaint. For the legal term, use denuncia.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
queja
- only used in se queja, third-person singular present indicative of quejarse
- only used in te ... queja, syntactic variant of quéjate, second-person singular imperative of quejarse
Further reading edit
- “queja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014