sombra

B1Rank #2544

shadow (a dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object)

Part of speech
noun
Article
la
Gender
feminine
Frequency rank
#2544 of 5,000

sin sombra de duda

without a shadow of a doubt

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"sombra" in example sentences

"sombra" appears in 62 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Es una sombra.

It's a shadow.

Tatoeba #1567339

Donde hay luz, también hay sombras.

Where there is light, there is also shadow.

Tatoeba #11763731

El mal es solo una sombra.

Evil is but a shadow.

Tatoeba #9188981

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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