don

A2Rank #837

a title of respect to a man, prefixed to first names

Part of speech
noun
Article
la
Gender
feminine
Frequency rank
#837 of 5,000

[Y] dime: don Luis Mejías ¿ha venido hoy?

[A]nd tell me: mister Luis Mejía, did he come today?

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"don" in example sentences

"don" appears in 16 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Tiene un don.

She has a gift.

Tatoeba #8694314

No es más que un don nadie.

He is a mere nobody.

Tatoeba #3677008

Sólo soy un don nadie.

I am just a nobody.

Tatoeba #927214

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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