Anabel

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish.

Yo soy Anabel y tengo muchas ganas de traerte tres chistes que pondrán a prueba tu español.

I have chosen three jokes that will test your Spanish, but that will also teach you something interesting about the language.

Si te interesa, no te vayas muy lejos, que empezamos.

El primer chiste es una conversación y dice así.

Hola, ¿tienen libros para el cansancio?

Sí, pero están agotados.

Did you get this one?

Let's look at it in more detail.

It starts with Hola, ¿tienen libros para el cansancio?

Hello, do you have books about tiredness?

And the cleric answers Sí, pero están agotados.

Yes, we do, but they are agotados.

And here is where the joke comes from.

Agotado has two meanings in Spanish.

Exhausted means

and out of stock.

So, the customer is looking for books about tiredness, but the books are exhausted or out of stock, or maybe both.

Now, just for extra knowledge, let's see agotado in a different context.

Can you guess if we are using agotado meaning exhausted or out of stock?