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How to Say "assignments" in Spanish

The Spanish word for “assignments” is “deberes” — A1 level. This is a very common word in everyday Spanish.

English → SpanishA1
nounA1
educational tasks
A young child with brown hair sitting at a wooden desk, concentrating on writing in a notebook with a pencil, surrounded by colorful school books.

Examples

¿Ya hiciste tus deberes de matemáticas?

Did you already do your math homework?

Tengo muchísimos deberes para el fin de semana.

I have so much homework for the weekend.

La maestra revisó los deberes de todos los estudiantes.

The teacher checked all the students' assignments.

Always Plural

Even if you only have one assignment, 'deberes' is almost always used in its plural form in this context.

Using the Singular

Mistake: “Hice mi deber.”

Correction: Hice mis deberes. ('deber' in singular usually means 'duty' or 'obligation.')

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