para

A1Rank #20

for, to (expressing a recipient)

Part of speech
preposition
Frequency rank
#20 of 5,000

La niña compró un regalo de navidad para su abuela.

The girl bought a Christmas gift for her grandmother.

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"para" in example sentences

"para" appears in 7,316 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, leaving out sentences where the same spelling is a verb form. Here are 3 of them.

¿Para qué es?

What is it for?

Tatoeba #10352405

¿Para qué es eso?

What's that for?

Tatoeba #6601749

¿Para qué es esto?

What is this for?

Tatoeba #2001712

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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