demonios

A2Rank #542

the hell, on earth (for emphasis after a question word)

Part of speech
adverb
Frequency rank
#542 of 5,000

¿Qué demonios está pasando?

What on earth is happening?

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"demonios" in example sentences

"demonios" appears in 30 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

¿Qué demonios es eso?

What the hell is that?

Tatoeba #5102036

¿Quién demonios eres?

Who on earth are you?

Tatoeba #580155

¿Dónde demonios estás?

Where the bloody hell are you?

Tatoeba #1641790

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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