ese in Spanish - meaning & frequency

Part of speech: determiner
Gender: masculine
Frequency rank: #85 of 5,000

Ese libro es mío.

That book is mine.

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"ese" in example sentences

"ese" appears in 1,921 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Ese fue él.

That was him.

Tatoeba #13931609

Ese no soy yo.

That's not me.

Tatoeba #9667598

Ese soy yo.

That's me.

Tatoeba #1270978

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Words often found with "ese"

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tipo63 libro124 hombre95 vestido37 momento53 edificio33

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