venir mal dadas
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beˌniɾ ˌmal ˈdadas/ [beˌniɾ ˌmal̪ ˈd̪a.ð̞as]
- Syllabification: ve‧nir mal da‧das
Verb
- (idiomatic, only third person plural) To go wrong, to go pear-shaped
- vienen mal dadas
- things go pear-shaped
Further reading
- “venir mal dadas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025