Get ready to celebrate with this Spanish vocabulary for Easter! 🐰 Learn how to talk in Spanish about the Holy Week (Semana Santa), and the Easter holidays, and get some new Spanish phrases under your belt.

If you’re traveling to a Spanish-speaking country, don’t miss out on their Easter celebrations. For example, many Latin American countries mark the days around Easter with different celebrations and the beginning of Lent usually starts with a carnaval.

Spanish vocabulary for Easter

Let’s start with the basics! The main words you should know are la Pascua (Easter), la Semana Santa (Holy Week), la Cuaresma (Lent), and ¡Felices Pascuas! (Happy Easter!). Lent traditionally lasts for 40 days and 40 nights (cuarenta días y cuarenta noches) and during this time a lot of people are fasting (en ayunas). Here’s an interesting tidbit: in Spanish, we say estar en ayunas (to be fasting) and then we have el desayuno (breakfast), which means “to stop fasting” (or think about the English version: “to break fast”). Since we’re on the food topic, have a look over how to talk about food in Spanish.

Easter vocabulary in Spanish

These are the must-know Spanish vocabulary words for Easter:

• el Martes de Carnaval (Mardi Gras, the last day before Lent)
• el Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter)
• el Miércoles de Ceniza (Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent) – ceniza means “ash” in Spanish
• el Jueves Santo (Holy or Maundy Thursday)
• el Viernes Santo (Good Friday)
• el Domingo de Pascua (Easter Sunday) – It can also go by Domingo de Gloria or Domingo de Resurrección
• el Lunes de Pascua (Easter Monday)
• la Crucifixión (the Crucifixion)
• las procesiones de Semana Santa (Easter processions)
• bendecir (to bless)
• el conejito / el conejo de Pascua (bunny / Easter bunny)
• los huevos de Pascua (Easter eggs)
• el huevo de chocolate (chocolate egg)
• los dulces (candy)
• las sorpresas (surprises)
• los cascarones (egg shells)
• el tulipán (tulips) or el ramo de tulipanes (a bunch of tulips)
• cesta de Pascua (Easter basket) – There’s a difference between the feminine la cesta and the masculine el cesto (they both mean “basket”): la cesta is usually a smaller basket, while el cesto is bigger.

Easter is but one holiday, so check out how to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in Spanish. Be prepared for all seasons!

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Spanish phrases for Easter

Now let’s have a look over the most popular Spanish phrases for Easter:

• ¡Felices Pascuas! (Happy Easter!)
• ¿Qué planes tienes para celebrar Pascua? (What plans do you have for celebrating Easter?)
• ¿Estás pasando la Pascua con tu familia? (Are you celebrating Easter with your family?)
• ¿Qué te trajo el conejo de Pascua? (What did the Easter bunny bring you?)
• El conejo de pascua me trajo una canasta llena de dulces y sorpresas. (The Easter bunny brought me a box full of candy and surprises.)
• ¿Cuál es tu actividad favorita de Pascua? (What’s your favorite Easter activity?)
• Mi parte favorita de Pascua son los chocolates. (My favorite part of Easter is the chocolates.)

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