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Get your things.

Toma tus cosas.

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MEANING & CONTEXT

The words, and when to use them

“Toma tus cosas.” means “Get your things.” in Mexican Spanish. Ask someone to gather/take their belongings before leaving.

Situation: Ask someone to gather/take their belongings before leaving.

Register: Familiar (tú). Gender form: neutral.

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Difficulty

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Easy

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Essential

Conversation builder

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Yes

Situation specific

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Yes

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Why this difficulty rating?

Idiom 0 points: Individual editorial estimate of nonliteral learning effort.
Reuse 0 points: Two-point credit per content family present in at least four reconciled cards, capped at ten.
Length 6 points: 3 spoken words; selected variant only.
Grammar 17 points: Individual editorial estimate retained from phrase review; accounts for structure and pronouns.
Vocabulary 5 points: Project basic/specialized lists and word-family frequency in the reconciled deck; rarity is not obscurity.

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Formality and register

How a phrase addresses someone: Neutral, Familiar (tú), or Formal (usted). Politeness also depends on wording and context; tú can be polite.

Familiar (tú)

Conversation role

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Give instructions Reassure or encourage

Situations

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Ask someone to gather/take their belongings before leaving.

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neutral

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Not recorded

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Core

Vocabulary families

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cosas toma

Vocabulary familiarity

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Everyday

Reusability

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Coverage gap value

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Ambiguity risk

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Confusion risk

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1–3

Usefulness score

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Difficulty score

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31–40

Vocabulary contribution

Recorded number of vocabulary-family contributions; it is not a learner’s vocabulary size.

1–3

Review dates

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2026-10-23

Editorial quality

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Reviewed for Spanish (Mexico)

Source batches

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photo-batches-01-15-2026-10-23

Review methods

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Individual editorial meaning/context/grammar review; difficulty-v2 vocabulary/reuse recomputed against reconciled 1414-card deck. Supplemental ratings are editorial estimates, not recall or CEFR measurements.

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Introductory speakers

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Not recorded

Idiom difficulty factor