los servicios de emergencia
“los servicios de emergencia” — emergency services in Spanish. Noun, level B1. The single number in Spain is 112 — ambulance, fire and police all go through it. El rescate is a rescue as an act. In a live sentence: “Los servicios de emergencia llegaron enseguida” — The emergency services arrived straight away. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Spanish course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Spanish | los servicios de emergencia |
| Translation | emergency services |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- los servicios de emergenciaemergency services
Why it looks that way
The single number in Spain is 112 — ambulance, fire and police all go through it. El rescate is a rescue as an act
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.
- Los servicios de emergencia llegaron enseguidaThe emergency services arrived straight away
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 “emergency services” in Spanish?
«los servicios de emergencia». In a live sentence: “Los servicios de emergencia llegaron enseguida” — The emergency services arrived straight away. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The single number in Spain is 112 — ambulance, fire and police all go through it. El rescate is a rescue as an act. 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.