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durar
     1. v. to last
           Un partido de fútbol dura 90 minutos. - A football match lasts 90 minutes.
     2. v. to take time
estar
     1. v. to be (have a temporary or permanent location in space)
           ¿Dónde estás? - Where are you?
           Estoy en casa. - I am at home.
     2. v. to be (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
           El tiempo estaba frío/caliente. - The weather was cold/hot back then.
           ¿Estás feliz? - Are you happy right now?
     3. v. to be (auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb)
           Ella está cantando. - She is singing.
     4. v. to be in a state (in a passive voice sense)
           Los vasos están rotos. - The vases are broken. (In passive voice with estar, unlike haber, its past participle agrees with number and gender of the subject)
           Llegaron y vieron que el hotel estaba abandonado. - They arrived and saw the hotel was abandoned.
     5. v. to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
           Estense callados y quietos. - Stay quiet and not moving.
     6. v. to be to be done, to be (still) undone:
           Esto todavía está por hacer. - This is still to be done.
           Lo peor está por llegar. - The worst part is yet to come.
     7. v. to be in a long-term state (in specific idioms)
           estar muerto/a - to be dead
           estar casado/a - to be married (can also be ser casado)
           estar chico/a - to be short (colloquially)
vigente
     1. adj. in force, in effect
     2. adj. current, in use
     3. adj. within shelf life, unexpired
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