gana

B1Rank #1520

wish, desire (de mala gana = reluctantly)

Part of speech
noun
Article
la
Gender
feminine
Frequency rank
#1520 of 5,000

No tengo ganas (de hacer eso).

I don't feel like it (like doing that).

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"gana" in example sentences

"gana" appears in 8 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. Here are 2 of them.

Lo hizo de mala gana.

He reluctantly did it.

Tatoeba #7933218

No tengo ninguna gana de hablar con él.

I don't feel like talking to him.

Tatoeba #7933249

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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