mudanza

move

noun moo-DAHN-sah Rare

Origin: From mudar (to change, from Latin 'mutare') + '-anza'.

Also means

change

Usage Note

Mudanza primarily means a household move — packing and relocating to a new home. Hacer la mudanza means 'to move house', and empresa de mudanzas is a moving company. In an older or literary register, mudanza can also mean a change or transformation more broadly (la mudanza de las estaciones), but in everyday Spanish the moving-house sense dominates.

Examples

"La mudanza al nuevo apartamento fue muy agotadora."

Natural Translation

The move to the new apartment was very exhausting.

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