por

A1Rank #12

for; by; through; because of

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

La novela Cien años de soledad fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez.

The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by Gabriel García Márquez.

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"por" in example sentences

"por" appears in 12,752 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Esto es por ti.

This is because of you.

Tatoeba #3544858

¿Fue por algo que dije?

Was it because of something I said?

Tatoeba #8677868

No sabes por lo que hemos pasado.

You don't know what we've been through.

Tatoeba #9640704

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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