callar
Meanings
Verb
1. to calm
2. to be silent, to shut up (reflexive, often derogatory in imperative, derogatory)
3. to keep silent
4. to hush, to become silent (intransitive)
5. to hush, to make silent (transitive)
6. to not mention
Examples138
¿Por qué no te callas?
Why don’t you shut up?
Tienes que callarte.
You need to shut up.
Dile a Tom que se calle.
Tell Tom to shut up.
Deberíamos callarnos.
We should remain quiet.
Layla debería callarse.
Layla should shut her mouth.
Lo que no se puede decir hay que callarlo.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.