estaban

A2Rank #519

they were (imperfect form of estar)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#519 of 5,000

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"estaban" in example sentences

"estaban" appears in 443 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Estaban todos aquí.

They were all here.

Tatoeba #4791909

¿No estaban en casa?

They weren't home?

Tatoeba #5584651

Estaban aquí mismo.

They were right here.

Tatoeba #10327813

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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