listo

A1Rank #441

ready (with estar); clever, smart (with ser)

Part of speech
adjective
Frequency rank
#441 of 5,000

Cree que es el estudiante más listo de su clase.

He has the illusion that he is the smartest in his class.

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"listo" in example sentences

"listo" appears in 336 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 3 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Todo está listo.

Everything is ready.

Tatoeba #579765

Son muy listos.

You're very smart.

Tatoeba #5058006

¡Qué listas son ustedes!

You are so smart!

Tatoeba #13660786

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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