Fiesta pagana 2.0
by Mägo de Oz
How to study this song
The card for “Fiesta pagana 2.0” is built from 75 study entries at C1-: 37 Spanish words, 8 adjectives and 30 verb forms. Begin with fiesta, hoguera and clero: get those and most of the lines stop being guesswork. This one leans on its verbs: 30 distinct forms against 8 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the words on their own are not the problem — it is the way they are put together that takes the work.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| ES | EN | IT | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fiesta | party, feast | festa | fête | festa | feest | Fest, die Feier |
Adjectives
| ES | EN | IT | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pagana | pagan | pagana | païenne | pagã | heidens | heidnisch |
Verb forms
| ES | EN | IT | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| despiertes | you wake up (subjunctive) | ti svegli (congiuntivo) | tu te réveilles (subjonctif) | acordes (conjuntivo) | je wakker wordt | du aufwachst (Konjunktiv) |
What this song teaches you
Level · C1-
- Vocabulary words
- 37
- Adjectives
- 8
- Word combos
- 4
- Expressions
- 10
- Verb forms
- 30
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
«Fiesta pagana» first appeared on Mägo de Oz’s 2000 album «Finisterra» and became the band’s best-known song: folk metal with a violin, and a lyric that tells the listener to stand up against tithes, the Inquisition and a well-fed abbot. Version 2.0 is the band’s own re-recording from 2013. The words are the ones from 2000, which is part of the point — the complaint has not needed updating.
Did you know?
The song is a run of commands — stand up, raise your fist, come, say, undress her — and one of them attaches its pronoun to the verb, which is where the written accent in Spanish suddenly becomes obligatory.
Charts & streaming
The 2.0 re-recording was released on 11 November 2013. The original appeared on «Finisterra» on 15 November 2000 and remains the band’s signature song.