📖LearnModule 13 · Lesson 17 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, first halfUnit 4 · El pensamiento y la ética
La ética
Module 13 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, first half), lesson 17 of 30: Ethical vocabulary is where Spanish and English look identical and behave differently. On this page: 10 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
el deber moral
moral duty
ehl deh-BEHR moh-RAHL
la responsabilidad
responsibility
lah rrehs-pohn-sah-bee-lee-DAHD
la dignidad
dignity
lah deeg-nee-DAHD
la ética
ethics
lah EH-tee-kah
la moral
morality
lah moh-RAHL
el código profesional
the professional code
ehl KOH-dee-goh proh-feh-syoh-NAHL
técnico a propósito
technical on purpose
TEHK-nee-koh ah proh-POH-see-toh
el peso jurídico
the legal weight
ehl PEH-soh hoo-REE-dee-koh
asumir
to take responsibility for
ah-soo-MEER
tú asumes la responsabilidad
you take on the responsibility
too ah-SOO-mehs lah rrehs-pohn-sah-bee-lee-DAHD
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Ethical vocabulary is where Spanish and English look identical and behave differently. El deber is duty; la responsabilidad is both responsibility and liability; la dignidad carries legal weight in Spanish-speaking countries that it does not in English.
Y también · And also
La moral is personal morality or the moral of a story; la ética is the discipline and the professional code. A text that says ética is being technical on purpose.
Ojo · Watch out
la moral is personal morality or a story's moral; la ética is the discipline and the professional code. la responsabilidad is both responsibility and legal liability. asumir is to take on, never to assume something is true.
asumir, presente — the table
yo asumo · tú asumes · él/ella/usted asume · nosotros asumimos · ustedes asumen · ellos/ellas asumen
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el deber moral.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out asumir, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.