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Fatal

Terrible / Awful

Greetings & Smalltalk
Notes & Usage:

Strong negative response. In colloquial Spanish, fatal means very bad. Be careful — in English 'fatal' means deadly, not just bad.

See It in Context

—¿Cómo estás? —Fatal, llevo tres días con fiebre.

—How are you? —Awful, I've had a fever for three days.

Me fue fatal en el examen.

The exam went terribly for me.

—¿Qué tal el partido? —Fatal, perdimos por goleada.

—How was the match? —Terrible, we lost by a landslide.