Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«Cada oveja con su pareja.»
Word for word
Each sheep with its partner.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Birds of a feather flock together.
People naturally pair up with their own kind — said when like finds like at a party or in love.
Hear it in a sentence
En la fiesta, los aficionados al ajedrez acabaron todos en la misma mesa: cada oveja con su pareja.
At the party, all the chess fans ended up at the same table — birds of a feather flock together.
More Spanish sayings
- Dios los cría y ellos se juntan. — Birds of a feather flock together.
- A su tiempo maduran las uvas. — Everything ripens in its own time.
- Madre no hay más que una. — There's no one like your mother.
- Ojo por ojo, diente por diente. — An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
- Dos cabezas piensan mejor que una. — Two heads are better than one.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your level.