rato

A2Rank #929

a while, bit (a short period of time)

Part of speech
noun
Article
el
Gender
masculine
Frequency rank
#929 of 5,000

Pasó un buen rato viendo la película.

He had a good time watching the movie.

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"rato" in example sentences

"rato" appears in 176 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Ella se fue hace un rato.

She left a little while ago.

Tatoeba #11267702

Hemos pasado buenos ratos aquí, ¿a que sí?

We had some good times here, didn't we?

Tatoeba #7124700

Se fue hace un rato.

He left a while ago.

Tatoeba #855506

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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