Remera
T-shirt — the Argentine word for a plain short-sleeved shirt.
Related lesson: Argentine Spanish — A Survival Guide.
Hear it in context
Ponete una remera, que a la noche refresca.
Put a t-shirt on, it gets cool at night.
Me compré una remera nueva para el partido.
I bought a new t-shirt for the game.
¿Tenés una remera de repuesto?
Do you have a spare t-shirt?
What It Actually Means
Remera is the standard Argentine (and Uruguayan) word for “t-shirt” — everyday, neutral vocabulary, not slang. It’s simply the word that’s used regionally, the way “trainers” and “sneakers” both mean the same shoe in different English dialects.
Where Textbooks Get It Wrong
Most Spanish courses teach camiseta as the word for “t-shirt”, which is correct in Spain and much of Latin America but sounds noticeably foreign in Argentina, where camiseta is reserved specifically for sports jerseys (a football shirt, for example).
The Distinction to Remember
- Remera — a plain, everyday t-shirt.
- Camiseta — in Argentina, specifically a sports jersey (“la camiseta de la selección” — the national team’s jersey).
Mixing the two up is one of the fastest ways to sound like you learned your Spanish somewhere else.
Regional Note
This kind of everyday vocabulary swap (not slang, just regional difference) is common across the Spanish-speaking world — see the “Spain vs. Latin America vocabulary traps” post for more examples like coche/carro and ordenador/computadora.