detener

B1Rank #1874

to stop; to arrest, to detain

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#1874 of 5,000

Conjugate detener - all tenses →

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"detener" in example sentences

"detener" appears in 156 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 34 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

¿Por qué no los detuviste?

Why didn't you stop them?

Tatoeba #3804677

No te detendré.

I won't stop you.

Tatoeba #1125809

Yo no me detuve.

I didn't stop.

Tatoeba #4590240

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "detener"

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