mentira

A2Rank #1252

lie, trick, falsity

Part of speech
noun
Article
la
Gender
feminine
Frequency rank
#1252 of 5,000

Parecía mentira que su cuerpo fuera tan hermoso.

It was unbelievable how beautiful her body was.

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"mentira" in example sentences

"mentira" appears in 172 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Es una mentira.

It's a lie.

Tatoeba #10015349

No puedo decir mentiras.

I cannot tell a lie.

Tatoeba #11600875

Eso es mentira.

That's a lie.

Tatoeba #2351580

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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