punta

B2Rank #3045

tip, point, end

Part of speech
noun
Article
la
Gender
feminine
Frequency rank
#3045 of 5,000

la punta del iceberg

the tip of the iceberg

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"punta" in example sentences

"punta" appears in 44 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Ponga el libro de punta.

Stand the book on end.

Tatoeba #2259218

Está en la punta de mi lengua.

It's on the tip of my tongue.

Tatoeba #3643384

Tengo la palabra en la punta de la lengua.

The word is on the tip of my tongue.

Tatoeba #435859

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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