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Sentence

Estaba lloviendo antes, entonces debes traer un paraguas.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

It was raining before, so you should bring an umbrella.

Notes

Entonces, en este caso, significa en tal caso y expresa una consecuencia.



Analysis


estaba
     1. v. third-person singular 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)
lloviendo
     1. v. gerund of llover
     llover
          1. v. to rain
antes
     1. adv. earlier, before, sooner, previously, formerly, beforehand (at an earlier time)
     2. adv. soon (in certain phrases)
     3. adv. ahead (temporally), ahead of (qual, when followed by de)
     4. adv. once, formerly (in the past)
     5. adv. first (before a condition is fulfilled)
     6. adv. rather, sooner (used to specify a preference)
     7. prep. before (earlier than) (qual, triggers the subjunctive in subordinate clauses)
     8. n. plural of ante
     ante
          1. prep. in front of, before
          2. prep. against, compared to
          3. n-m. elk
          4. n-m. suede
          5. n-m. (Mexico) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip)
entonces
     1. conj. then, next, thereupon, at that time, at that point
     2. conj. then, therefore, so, thus
debes
     1. v. informal second-person singular present indicative of deber
     deber
          1. v. to owe
          2. v. (auxiliary) must, to need to, to have to (rarely used in the conditional with this meaning)
          3. v. (auxiliary) should, to ought to, to be supposed to, to be to
          4. v. (auxiliary) should have (in the preterite; having haber follow "deber" is optional and not required)
          5. v. (auxiliary) shall (future tense usually)
          6. v. to be due to, to be attributable to, to be the result of, to be caused by
          7. v. (with de and infinitive) probably or most likely do or happen something (add a degree of insecurity to the verb)
          8. n-m. obligation, duty
          9. n-m. debt
          10. n-m. should, ought (modal noun)
          11. n-m. (usually in the plural) homework
traer
     1. v. to bring, to fetch
     2. v. to attract, draw, pull
     3. v. to bring about, cause, occasion
     4. v. to make (cause to be in or have a certain condition or state)
     5. v. to wear (ellipsis of traer puesto)
     6. v. to bring forward, advance, adduce
     7. v. to make, compel, oblige
     8. v. to persuade
     9. v. to have, carry (in a publication, in stock)
     10. v. to include (have as a component, part, accessory or ingredient)
un
     1. art. a
     2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one
paraguas
     1. n-m. umbrella, brolly (UK)
     2. n-m. plural of paragua
     paragua
          1. n-m. (dialectal, nonstandard) Alternative form of paraguas




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