tío
A1Rank #331uncle (the brother, brother-in-law, or male cousin or cousin-in-law of either parent)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Article
- la
- Gender
- feminine
- Frequency rank
- #331 of 5,000
Mi tío es el hermano o primo de mi madre o de mi padre.
My uncle is my mother’s or father’s brother or male cousin.
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"tío" appears in 257 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.
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