escala

B2Rank #3927

ladder (a frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent)

Part of speech
noun
Article
la
Gender
feminine
Frequency rank
#3927 of 5,000

a gran escala

on a broad scale

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"escala" in example sentences

"escala" appears in 5 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation when counted only after an article or determiner (el, una, mi...), because the same spelling is also a verb form, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Estoy haciendo negocios a gran escala.

I am doing business on a large scale.

Tatoeba #3111916

¿Hace alguna escala este vuelo?

Does this flight make any stop-overs?

Tatoeba #907170

Intenta tocar esta escala.

Try playing this scale.

Tatoeba #1191739

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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