desastre
A2Rank #1489disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- Part of speech
- noun
- Article
- el
- Gender
- masculine
- Frequency rank
- #1489 of 5,000
El terremoto no fue un revés menor; fue un desastre.
The earthquake wasn't a minor setback; it was a calamity.
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"desastre" in example sentences
"desastre" appears in 33 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.
Debemos estar siempre preparados para los desastres.
We must always be prepared for disasters.
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