encender in Spanish - meaning & frequency

Part of speech: verb
Frequency rank: #4444 of 5,000

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"encender" in example sentences

"encender" appears in 139 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 34 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

Haga el favor de encender la luz.

Please turn on the light.

Tatoeba #2267658

Enciende la luz. No veo nada.

Switch on the light. I can't see anything.

Tatoeba #804949

Encienda la luz, por favor.

Turn on the light, please.

Tatoeba #464289

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "encender"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "encender"; the number is how many.

vela12 radio15 luz18 lámpara6 luces7 cigarrillo4

Related words

enciende

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