oscuro

B1Rank #1635

dark (lacking light)

Part of speech
adjective
Frequency rank
#1635 of 5,000

azul oscuro

dark blue

Definition adapted from Wiktionary and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry for oscuro · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sources and licences

frequencya2adjectivewiktionary

"oscuro" in example sentences

"oscuro" appears in 152 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 4 spellings (masculine, feminine, singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Está oscuro aquí.

It's dark in here.

Tatoeba #1606606

La casa era tan oscura como la noche.

The house was as dark as dark.

Tatoeba #1201094

¿Por qué las noches son tan oscuras?

Why are the nights so dark?

Tatoeba #3052815

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "oscuro"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "oscuro"; the number is how many.

Related words

Lock "oscuro" into memory

Reading a word once rarely sticks. Fijario's flashcard deck and daily quiz take you through the frequency list one card at a time, so the words you meet most come back the most.

See words #1601 -1700 in the frequency list