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Sentence

Aquí está la casa en la cual vivía mi hermano.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

Here is the house in which my brother lived.

Notes

Este es un ejemplo de una oración de relativo, que se utiliza para unir dos frases sin repetir información. En este caso, la información es un lugar (la casa), por eso necesitamos el pronombre relativo de lugar en la cual. En este caso, donde también sería correcto.



Analysis


aquí
     1. adv. here
está
     1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative 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)
casa
     1. n-f. house
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of casar
     casar
          1. v. to marry, wed someone to (unite two others in wedlock)
          2. v. to marry off
          3. v. to match (up), fit (together)
          4. v. (reciprocal) to get married, marry (each other, one another)
          5. v. to wed, marry, get married (+preo, con)
en
     1. prep. in, at, on
     2. prep. in (a time)
     3. prep. in (a language)
     4. prep. used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English
     5. prep. in (in various expressions)
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)
cual
     1. adv. (formal, literary) like, as, in the manner of
     2. pron. (formal, literary) suchlike, like (which), such as
vivía
     1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of vivir
     vivir
          1. v. to live; to be alive
          2. v. to make a living, to live (on)
          3. v. to live, reside, inhabit
          4. v. to experience, to live through
          5. n-m. life; lifestyle
mi
     1. det. (before the noun) apocopic form of mío, my
     2. n-f. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
hermano
     1. n-m. brother
     2. n-m. sibling
     3. n-m. bro
     4. v. first-person singular present indicative of hermanar
     hermanar
          1. v. to unite
          2. v. to match
          3. v. to harmonize




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