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Sentence

Estábamos mirando la televisión.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

We were watching TV.



Analysis


estábamos
     1. v. first-person plural imperfect indicative of estar
     estar
          1. v. to be (have a temporary or permanent location in space)
          2. v. to be (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
          3. v. to be (auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb)
          4. v. to be in a state (in a passive voice sense)
          5. v. to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
          6. v. to be to be done, to be (still) undone:
          7. v. to be in a long-term state (in specific idioms)
mirando
     1. v. gerund of mirar
     mirar
          1. v. to look at (to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes)
          2. v. to watch (to look at, view, or observe for a period of time)
          3. v. to watch (to mind, attend, or guard)
          4. v. to consider, think over (to think about seriously)
          5. v. (used for emphasis); look
          6. v. to seek, look for (to try to find)
          7. v. to look (to try to see something, to pay attention with one’s eyes)
          8. v. to face, overlook (to be oriented towards a certain direction or thing)
          9. v. to look at oneself
la
     1. art. the
     2. pron. accusative of ella, ello (when the antecedent's implied gender is feminine), and usted (when referring to a woman); her, it, you (formal)
     3. pron. (impersonal neuter pronoun (accusative) in certain colloquial phrases): it, this
     4. n-m. (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
     5. n-m. (music) A (the musical note or key)
televisión
     1. n-f. television (an electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound)
     2. n-f. television set, TV set, television receiver, television, (colloquial) telly (a device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form)
     3. n-f. television (collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television)




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