queja
See also: quejá
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
editAdverb
editqueja
Preposition
editqueja
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editDeverbal from quejarse (“to complain”). Compare Portuguese queixa.
Noun
editqueja 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
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editqueja
- 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
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