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Sentence

En el cofre había unos libros antiguos.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

In the chest there were some antique books.

Notes

Había es el Pretérito Imperfecto del verbo haber. Igual que en su forma en Presente (hay), siempre se conjuga en la tercera persona del singular, independiente mente de que el complemento que le acompaña esté en singular o en plural: Hay muchos libros / Habían muchos libros.



Analysis


en
     1. prep. in, at, on
     2. prep. in (a time)
     3. prep. in (a language)
     4. prep. n-g-lite, used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English
     5. prep. in (in various expressions)
el
     1. art. (n-g-lite, masculine singular definite article); the
     2. art. n-g-lite, feminine singular definite article used before nouns which start with a stressed 'a':
cofre
     1. n-m. chest, coffer, trunk
     2. n-m. safe
     3. n-m. bonnet, hood (engine compartment of a car)
había
     1. v. of haber
     haber
          1. v. (auxiliary verb taking past participle to build various perfect tenses) to have
          2. v. (obsolete) to hold, to possess
          3. v. (impersonal, in third person singular only) to exist; “there is”, “there are” (hay); “there was”, “there were” (había)
          4. v. , passage=Tan largo el silencio que hubo entre nosotros dos, t=The silence that was between the two of us was so long
          5. v. (dated, or formal) to have to (+ de + infinitive)
          6. v. , passage=Aquí, me dijo, has de trabajar., t=Here, he told me, you have to work.
          7. v. (Used only in the third-person existential form) to be necessary (+ que + infinitive)
          8. v. used to denote a past obligation
          9. n-m. asset
          10. n-m. history
          11. n-m. credit side
unos
     1. art. masculine plural of un
     2. det. plural of uno: some, a few
     3. det. (with a specific time) about, approximately
     4. pron. plural of uno: some, a few
libros
     1. n. plural of libro
     libro
          1. n-m. book
          2. v. of librar
antiguos
     1. adj. masculine plural of antiguo
     2. n. (philosophy) the ancients
     antiguo
          1. adj. old, former, erstwhile, quondam, one-time, onetime
          2. adj. old, ancient, age-old
          3. adj. vintage, antique
          4. adj. old-fashioned, outdated, old-style, old-time
          5. adj. long-standing, longstanding
          6. v. of antiguar




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