Hacienda
“Hacienda” — the tax office in Spanish. Noun, level B1. the h is not pronounced at all: ah-SYEN-da. In a live sentence: “Este año Hacienda me ha devuelto trescientos euros” — This year the tax office returned three hundred euros to me. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Spanish course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Spanish | Hacienda |
| Translation | the tax office |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- Haciendathe tax office
How to pronounce it
the h is not pronounced at all: ah-SYEN-da
Why it looks that way
Officially la Agencia Tributaria, but everyone says Hacienda — no article, like a name: Hacienda me ha devuelto el dinero. The word itself means an estate, a treasury
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Este año Hacienda me ha devuelto trescientos eurosThis year the tax office returned three hundred euros to me
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “the tax office” in Spanish?
«Hacienda». the h is not pronounced at all: ah-SYEN-da. In a live sentence: “Este año Hacienda me ha devuelto trescientos euros” — This year the tax office returned three hundred euros to me. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Officially la Agencia Tributaria, but everyone says Hacienda — no article, like a name: Hacienda me ha devuelto el dinero. The word itself means an estate, a treasury. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.