vaya

A1Rank #264

expresses surprise: wow!, why, oh!, whoa!, well!, man!, boy!

Part of speech
interjection
Frequency rank
#264 of 5,000

¡Vaya coche que tiene tu hermana!

What a car your sister has!

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"vaya" in example sentences

"vaya" appears in 9 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, leaving out sentences where the same spelling is a verb form. Here are 2 of them.

¡Vaya! ¡Pero qué gran caja!

Wow! What a big box!

Tatoeba #1600798

Vaya, perdí el autobús.

Shoot! I missed the bus.

Tatoeba #5711779

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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