From the Dead

Mild expression of disbelief or surprise. Less strong than its literal meaning might suggest; equivalent to 'no way' or 'are you serious?' in informal conversation.

Standard reflexive phrase. Very frequent in everyday speech. False friend alert: it does NOT mean 'to give an account', it is the standard way to express realisation or noticing something.

Extremely versatile exclamation. Expresses surprise, mild admiration, irony, or disappointment depending entirely on intonation and context. 'Vaya + noun' often means 'what a…' (positive or negative).

Reflexive phrase indicating the mental process of accepting or adjusting to a new reality, often an unwelcome one.

'Menudo/a + noun' is a very common Castilian construction for ironic or emphatic comment, similar to 'some X that was'. 'Menuda' here does NOT mean 'small', it is the emphatic exclamatory use.

Used to describe a physical or emotional reaction to something frightening, eerie, or deeply moving. The verb 'dar' is used here in the third-person with an indirect object pronoun, a very common construction in Spanish.