Querida (Meaning: Dear; Pronunciation: ker-ee-dah) is the single most popular song by Juan Gabriel, one of Mexico’s most famous singers of all time. Querida appeared on the album Recuerdos, Vol. II, which was released in 1984 and was Mexico’s best selling album in history with over seven million sales.

Querida lyrics

Song overview

Querida is a long song, with Gabriel sing that he longs for his lover to come back: Querida, Mira mi soledad, oh ven ya (Dear, look at my lonliness, come back). What makes the song fun to listen to is the punchiness of the rhythmic lyrics: Dime cuándo tú, dime cuándo tú, Dime cuándo tú vas a volver, ah ah. (Tell me when you tell me when you tell me when you will come back, ah ah).

Listen to Querida

This video for Queria on YouTube has over 20 million views.

Lyrics vocabulary and grammar

In this section we explain the vocabulary and grammar of several lines of the song lyrics.

Querida

The song title, querida can translate to dear, loved, cherished or treasured. In the masculine for it is querido. It can be a noun or adjective.

Cada momento de mi vida

This line translates to “each moment of my life”. Cada in Spanish means “each” or “every”. Mi is a possessive adjective meaning “my”.

Yo pienso en ti más cada día

This line translates to “I think of you more every day”. Pienso is the fist-person (yo) form or pensar (to think).

Mira mi soledad, mira mi soledad

This line translates to “Look at my lonliness, look at my lonliness”. Mira is the imperative form of mirar (to look at). The feminine noun soledad means lonliness, lonesomeness or solitude.

Que no me sienta nada bien, oh ven ya

This line translates to “That I don’t feel good at all, come back”. Que no me sienta means “that I don’t feel” and is the subjunctive form of sentirse (to feel). Nada means “nothing” in Spanish but in this sentence nada bien means “not well at all”.

Ven is the imperative from of venir (to come). Ya has many usages and in this context means “now” or “already”.

No me ha sanado bien la herida

This line translates to “My wound hasn’t healed”. In Spanish, herida translates to “wound” or “injury”. Ha sanado is the verb sanar (to heal) conjugated in the third-person form of the present perfect tense.

Te extraño y lloro todavía

This line translates to “I miss you and am still crying” as extrañar means “to miss” and llorar means “to cry. Translations of todavía are “still” and “yet”.

Piensa en mi sólo un momento y ven

This line translates to “Think of me for just a moment and come”. Piensa en mi translates to “think of me”.

Date cuenta de que el tiempo es cruel

This line translates to “Realize that time is cruel”. The verb darse cuenta de means “to realize”. Tiempo in Spanish means both time and weather.

Y lo he pasado yo sin ti, oh ven ya

This line translates to “And I have spent it without you, come back”. The lo in this line is a direct object pronoun and means “it”.

Hazlo por quien más quieras tú

This line translates to “Do it for who else do you love”. In Spanish, más can translate to both “more” and “else”. Quieras is the second-person singular form of querer (to want, to love) in the subjunctive.

Yo quiero ver de nuevo luz, En todo mi casa

This line translates to “I want to see light again, In all my home”. Ver means “to see” in Spanish and de nuevo means “again”.

Ven a mí que estoy sufriendo

This line translates to “Come to me, I’m suffering”. Estoy sufriendo is the verb sufrir (to suffer) conjugated in the progressive present tense.

Por lo que quieras tú más ven

This line translates to “For what you want more, come”. This line was particularly hard to translate.

Más compasión de mí tú ten

This line translates to “More compassion from me, here!”. This line was also tricky to translate. The literal translation is “more compassion from me you take”.

Dime cuándo tú vas a volver

This line translates to “Tell me when you will come back”. Dime translates to “tell me” and is the imperative form of decir (to say).

Yo no puedo dime que no puedo olvidar

This line translates to “I can’t tell me that I can’t forget”. Puedo is the first-person singular form of poder (to be able).

Querida Spanish & English Lyrics

Querida
Cada momento de mi vida
Yo pienso en ti más cada día
Mira mi soledad, mira mi soledad
Que no me sienta nada bien, oh ven ya

Dear
Each moment of my life
I think of you more every day
Look at my lonliness, look at my lonliness
That I don’t feel good at all, come back

Querida
No me ha sanado bien la herida
Te extraño y lloro todavía
Mira mi soledad, mira mi soledad
Que no me sienta nada bien, come back

Dear
My wound hasn’t healed
I miss you and am still crying
Look at my lonliness, look at my lonliness
That I don’t feel good at all, come back

Querida
Piensa en mi sólo un momento y ven
Date cuenta de que el tiempo es cruel
Y lo he pasado yo sin ti, oh ven ya

Dear
Think of me for just a moment and come
Realize that time is cruel
And I have spent it without you, come back

Querida
Hazlo por quien más quieras tú
Yo quiero ver de nuevo luz
En todo mi casa, oh, oh

Do it for who else do you love
I want to see light again
In all my home, oh, oh

Querida
Ven a mí que estoy sufriendo
Ven a mí que estoy muriendo
En esta soledad, en esta soledad
Que no me sienta nada bien, ven

Dear
Come to me, I’m suffering
Come to me, I’m suffering
In this lonliness, in this lonliness
That I don’t feel good at all, come

Querida
Por lo que quieras tú más ven
Más compasión de mí tú ten
Mira mi soledad, mira mi soledad
Que no me sienta nada bien

Dear
For what you want more, come
More compassion from me, here!
Look at my lonliness, look at my lonliness
That I don’t feel good at all

Querida, querida
Dime cuándo tú, dime cuándo tú
Dime cuándo tú vas a volver, ah, ah
Dime cuándo tú, dime cuándo tú
Dime cuándo tú vas a volver

Dear, dear
Tell me when you, tell me when you
Tell me when you will come back, ah, ah
tell me when you, tell me wehn you
Tell me wehn you will come back

Querida
Querida
Dime cuándo tú, dime cuándo tú
Dime cuándo tú vas a volver, ah, ah
Dime cuándo tú, dime cuándo tú
Dime cuándo tú vas a volver

Dear
Dear
tell me when you, tell me when you
tell me when you will come back, ah, ah
Tell me when you, tell me when you
Tell me when you will come back

Tú, ven a mi soledad
Tú
Yo no puedo dime que no puedo olvidar
Dime cuándo tú, ey, tú
Dime cuándo tú, ey, tú

You, come to my solitude
You
I can’t tell me that I can’t forget
Tell me when you, ey, you
Tell me when you, ey, you

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