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Sentence

No sé bailar.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

I can't dance (literally "I don't know how to dance")

Notes

El verbo saber, en este caso, se utiliza para expresar una habilidad o una destreza.



Analysis


no
     1. adv. no
     2. adv. not
     3. interj. eh? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said)
     4. n-m. no
     5. n-m. abbreviation of número; no.
     1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative of ser
     2. interj. (colloquial Chile Mexico) yes
     saber
          1. v. to know (a fact), to wit
          2. v. to know how to do something
          3. v. (in the preterite tense) to find out, to learn
          4. v. to taste
          5. v. to realize, to know (e.g. recognize)
          6. v. to tell, to know (i.e. to discern or distinguish if something is the case)
          7. v. (informal) to figure out
          8. v. to hear from (+ de)
          9. v. to hear of, to hear about, (+ de)
          10. v. to learn of, to learn about, to find out about, to know about (+ de)
          11. v. to be known
          12. v. to know (extremely well)
          13. n-m. knowledge
     ser
          1. v. to be (essentially or identified as)
          2. v. to be (in the passive voice sense)
          3. v. to exist; to occur
          4. n-m. a being, organism
          5. n-m. nature, essence
          6. n-m. value, worth
no sé
     1. Phrase. I don't know
bailar
     1. v. to dance
     2. v. (soccer) to dribble (the ball)




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