decían

B2Rank #3651

they said (imperfect form of decir)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#3651 of 5,000

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"decían" in example sentences

"decían" appears in 18 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Lo que decían no era cierto.

What they said wasn't true.

Tatoeba #7843308

Decían que no se podía hacer, y ahora mira dónde estamos.

They said it couldn't be done, but look at us now.

Tatoeba #10637653

Decían que quieren hablar con usted.

They said that they want to talk to you.

Tatoeba #10485328

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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