acababa

B2Rank #4923

I/he/she/it finished (imperfect form of acabar)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#4923 of 5,000

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"acababa" in example sentences

"acababa" appears in 10 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Él acababa de llegar aquí.

He had just got here.

Tatoeba #1237098

Él acababa de llegar.

He had just arrived.

Tatoeba #499610

Cuando volvió yo acababa de terminar de escribir la carta.

I had just written the letter when he came back.

Tatoeba #2090187

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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