Lexis Rex Home

Spanish Sentence of the Day

Sentence

No aflojen el trabajo en tiempo de guerra.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

Don't slacken in your work in war time.



Analysis


no
     1. adv. no
     2. adv. not
     3. interj. eh? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said)
     4. n-m. no
     5. n-m. abbreviation of número; no.
aflojen
     1. v. second-person plural present subjunctive of aflojar
     aflojar
          1. v. to loosen
          2. v. to slacken, to unclench
          3. v. to ease up, to let up
          4. v. to cough up, shell out (pay money)
          5. v. to slack off, to relax
el
     1. art. (masculine singular definite article); the
     2. art. feminine singular definite article used before nouns which start with a stressed 'a':
trabajo
     1. n-m. work, job
     2. n-m. (physics) work
     3. v. first-person singular present indicative of trabajar
     trabajar
          1. v. to work
          2. v. to work in, work on, to workshop (+ en)
          3. v. (obsolete) to suffer
en
     1. prep. in, at, on
     2. prep. in (a time)
     3. prep. in (a language)
     4. prep. used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English
     5. prep. in (in various expressions)
tiempo
     1. n-m. (also, physics) time
     2. n-m. a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time
     3. n-m. tense
     4. n-m. weather
de
     1. prep. of; 's; (used after the thing owned and before the owner)
     2. prep. from (with the source or provenance of or at)
     3. prep. of (expressing composition, substance)
     4. prep. about (concerning; with regard to)
     5. prep. of, from (indicating cause)
     6. prep. of (indicates a quality or characteristic)
     7. prep. from (with the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at)
     8. prep. of (indicates the subject or cause of the adjective)
     9. prep. from (with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of)
     10. prep. than (in certain phrases)
     11. prep. (used to construct compound nouns (with attributive nouns))
     12. prep. (followed by the infinitive) (indicates a conditional desire)
     13. prep. indicates a time of day or period of someone's life
     14. prep. (after a noun and before a verb) (indicates the purpose of an object)
guerra
     1. n-f. war, warfare




Review previous sentences






Subscribe to Sentence of the Day
Email: