Arrendador / arrendatario
Landlord / tenant
The two parties to a Spanish lease — and two words easy to confuse at speed.
Arrendador is the landlord, arrendatario the tenant. They differ by three letters in the middle of a long word, and mixing them up while reading a clause reverses its meaning.
A practical habit: on first reading, mark every arrendador and arrendatario in the document before you read it for sense. Obligations look very different once you are certain which of them each sentence is about.
You may also meet propietario, the owner, who is not always the same person as the arrendador — a distinction that matters when the flat is sublet or managed.
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