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Los precios de las casas están por las nubes.

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pronunciation

Translation

House prices are through the roof.



Analysis


los
     1. art. the
     2. pron. accusative of ellos and ustedes (when referring to more than one man); them, you all (formal)
     3. pron. plural masculine or neuter pronoun
precios
     1. n. plural of precio
     precio
          1. n-m. price
          2. n-m. worth, cost
de
     1. prep. of; 's; (used after the thing owned and before the owner)
     2. prep. from (with the source or provenance of or at)
     3. prep. of (expressing composition, substance)
     4. prep. about (concerning; with regard to)
     5. prep. of, from (indicating cause)
     6. prep. of (indicates a quality or characteristic)
     7. prep. from (with the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at)
     8. prep. of (indicates the subject or cause of the adjective)
     9. prep. from (with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of)
     10. prep. than (in certain phrases)
     11. prep. (used to construct compound nouns (with attributive nouns))
     12. prep. (followed by the infinitive) (indicates a conditional desire)
     13. prep. indicates a time of day or period of someone's life
     14. prep. (after a noun and before a verb) (indicates the purpose of an object)
las
     1. art. the
     2. pron. accusative of ellas and ustedes (when referring to more than one woman); them, you all (formal)
     3. pron. feminine plural pronoun
     4. n. plural of la
     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)
casas
     1. n. plural of casa
     2. v. informal second-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)
     casa
          1. n-f. house
          2. v. third-person singular present indicative of casar
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)
por
     1. prep. by (indicates the creator of a work)
     2. prep. for (indicates something given in an exchange)
     3. prep. through, out, via (indicating movement)
     4. prep. across (indicating movement)
     5. prep. about
     6. prep. due to, because of, for, for the sake of, out of (to express cause or motive)
     7. prep. (used with directions) over
     8. prep. (mathematics) times, by, multiplied by
     9. prep. according to, for, regarding (to express opinion or something concerning someone)
     10. prep. via, through, by (indicating the means of something)
     11. prep. for (indicating duration)
     12. prep. for, for the sake of, on behalf of (indicating doing something for someone's benefit)
     13. prep. per, for each
     14. prep. to (indicating something that has not yet passed)
     15. prep. about to (indicating something that will soon happen)
     16. prep. compared to; against; versus (indicating a comparison)
las
     1. art. the
     2. pron. accusative of ellas and ustedes (when referring to more than one woman); them, you all (formal)
     3. pron. feminine plural pronoun
     4. n. plural of la
     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)
nubes
     1. n. plural of nube
     nube
          1. n-f. cloud
          2. n-f. multitude, or crowd, of people
          3. n-f. (Spain) marshmallow




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