El chango = Monkey

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El chango = Monkey (el chahn-go)

Note: A chango is a kind of monkey; a cute, little kind of monkey. Monkey can also be el mono (el moan-o)

As in...

  • Un par de changos = A pair of monkeys
  • No seas tan a mono. = Don’t be such a monkey.
  • Él es bien mono.  = He’s so cute! {Literally: He’s so monkey!}
  • El chango loco = The crazy monkey
  • ¿Viste changos en la selva? = Did you see monkeys in the forest?
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