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Sentence

Abajo están la cocina y el salón.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

The kitchen and lounge are downstairs.

Notes

El verbo está en plural porque el sujeto son dos elementos (la cocina y el salón), aunque individualmente estén en singular.



Analysis


abajo
     1. adv. down, downwards
     2. adv. downstairs
     3. adv. below
     4. interj. (figuratively) down with, away with
     5. v. first-person singular present indicative of abajar
     abajar
          1. v. to lower
          2. v. to go down, to descend
están
     1. v. third-person plural present 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)
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)
cocina
     1. n-f. kitchen
     2. n-f. stove, cooker, range
     3. n-f. cuisine
     4. n-f. (Dominican Republic, slang) back seats of a bus
     5. v. third-person singular present indicative of cocinar
     cocinar
          1. v. to cook
y
     1. conj. and
     2. conj. (in names of number) and
     3. conj. (in arithmetic) plus, and
     4. conj. (informal) well
     5. conj. (informal) what about, how about, where is/are the
el
     1. art. (masculine singular definite article); the
     2. art. feminine singular definite article used before nouns which start with a stressed 'a':
salón
     1. n-m. living room, front room, sitting room, parlor, lounge, drawing room (room where guests are received)
     2. n-m. salon (room)
     3. n-m. salon (gathering)
     4. n-m. hall (meeting hall)
     5. n-m. exhibition hall
     6. n-m. (Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay) classroom (long form is "salón de clases")




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