lata in Spanish - meaning & frequency

Part of speech: noun
Article: la
Gender: feminine
Frequency rank: #3869 of 5,000

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"lata" in example sentences

"lata" appears in 21 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.

Siempre está dando la lata.

He is always being a nuisance.

Tatoeba #434921

El ruido era una lata.

The noise was a nuisance.

Tatoeba #2268424

Sólo queda una lata de carne.

There is only one can of meat left.

Tatoeba #1297004

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