temía

B2Rank #4567

I/he/she/it was afraid of (imperfect form of temer)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#4567 of 5,000

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"temía" in example sentences

"temía" appears in 18 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Temía llegar tarde.

I was afraid I'd be late.

Tatoeba #1314078

Él no temía la muerte.

He didn't fear death.

Tatoeba #800805

Me temía lo peor.

I feared the worst.

Tatoeba #2206191

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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