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decía

A2Rank #854

I/he/she/it said (imperfect form of decir)

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

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"decía" in example sentences

"decía" appears in 55 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Yo decía que sí.

I said yes.

Tatoeba #6600568

Ella decía lo mismo.

She said the same thing.

Tatoeba #9287474

Todo lo que se decía era triste.

Whatever was said was sad.

Tatoeba #3252799

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "decía"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "decía"; the number is how many.

entendí5entender4madre6menudo3verdad5sabía3

Related words

decir - all tensesverb tabledecirbase formdijodicedijedijistedicesdiciendo

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