VerbamorLazy in Spanish
“Lazy” in Spanish is perezoso, or perezosa with a feminine noun. It's an adjective, pronounced /pe.ɾeˈso.so/.
In a sentence
El joven perezoso está tumbado en la cama bostezando mientras entra la luz del sol por la ventana.
The lazy young man is lying in bed yawning while sunlight comes through the window.
Grammar note
It agrees with its noun: un gato perezoso, una tarde perezosa. The noun is la pereza, and tengo pereza means I can't be bothered.
In most of Spain the z, or c before e or i, is said like the th in think: /pe.ɾeˈθo.so/.
How to remember it
El perezoso is also the Spanish name for the sloth. Picture one hanging from a branch, not moving.
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