mal

A1Rank #217

badly, wrong; bad

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

No hables mal de los muertos.

Don't speak ill of the dead.

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"mal" in example sentences

"mal" appears in 696 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

No está mal.

Not bad.

Tatoeba #1322722

Esto no está mal.

This isn't bad.

Tatoeba #2626544

Eso no está del todo mal.

That is not entirely wrong.

Tatoeba #8937087

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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