DELE A2 Vocabulary List (Elementary Spanish)

DELE A2 covers everyday Spanish: routines, past events, shopping, travel, health and simple preferences. Grammatically it is the level where the two past tenses arrive, the pretérito indefinido for finished events and the imperfecto for description, and where reflexive verbs become unavoidable.

For candidates preparing DELE A2. Maps to CEFR A2.

About DELE A2

DELE A2 covers everyday Spanish: routines, past events, shopping, travel, health and simple preferences. Grammatically it is the level where the two past tenses arrive, the pretérito indefinido for finished events and the imperfecto for description, and where reflexive verbs become unavoidable. The exam groups its four skills and expects a pass across the grouping, not a strong score in one skill carrying a weak one. Like every DELE, the diploma is permanent.

Who this list is for

DELE A2 is the level with a concrete external use: it is the Spanish language requirement in nationality applications, which makes it the most-sat diploma in the series and the reason many candidates take a DELE at all. Beyond that it suits anyone who can describe their day and recount a trip in simple sentences and wants that recognised. If you have been living in Spain or Latin America for a year and picked the language up informally, A2 is usually where you actually are.

How to study

A2 is where ser and estar have to stop being a coin toss. Memorising the rule list does not work as well as memorising ten contrasting pairs and letting the pattern settle. Learn the present and the preterite of the thirty most frequent verbs as pairs in spaced repetition rather than as separate items, because the exam asks you to move between them inside a single answer. Start listening to beginner podcasts daily; A2 listening is scored on ordinary speed, not on the slowed speech of a classroom.

The list (1318 words)

Some example sentences come from the Tatoeba Project (tatoeba.org), CC BY 2.0 FR. The rest were written for MindDory. Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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