estaba
A1Rank #82I was, he/she/it was (imperfect form of estar)
- Part of speech
- verb
- Frequency rank
- #82 of 5,000
Estaba en casa cuando llamaste.
I was at home when you called.
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"estaba" in example sentences
"estaba" appears in 3,351 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.
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