el

A1Rank #6

masculine singular definite article; the

Part of speech
article
Article
la
Gender
feminine
Frequency rank
#6 of 5,000

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"el" in example sentences

"el" appears in 31,088 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

No todo el mundo quiere ser artista.

Not everybody wants to be an artist.

Tatoeba #1191441

¿Alguien sabe el nombre de esta artista?

Does anybody know the name of this artist?

Tatoeba #13372336

No sé quién es el artista de esta obra.

I don't know who's the artist behind this piece.

Tatoeba #1875804

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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