mentir

B1Rank #2473

to lie (say something untrue)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#2473 of 5,000

Conjugate mentir - all tenses →

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"mentir" in example sentences

"mentir" appears in 241 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 32 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

¿Por qué mentiste?

Why did you lie?

Tatoeba #564577

¿Por qué mentiría?

Why would he lie?

Tatoeba #4869507

No me mientas.

Don't lie to me.

Tatoeba #580984

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "mentir"

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