cuento

B1Rank #1780

story

Part of speech
noun
Article
el
Gender
masculine
Frequency rank
#1780 of 5,000

Déjeme contarle un cuento.

Let me tell you a story.

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"cuento" in example sentences

"cuento" appears in 32 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation when counted only after an article or determiner (el, una, mi...), because the same spelling is also a verb form, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

No me creo tu cuento.

I'm not buying your story.

Tatoeba #10359500

¡Estoy harto de sus cuentos!

I'm fed up with your stories!

Tatoeba #2267203

Ese no es el fin del cuento.

That's not the end of the story.

Tatoeba #9466457

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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