malo

A1Rank #470

bad (of bad quality)

Part of speech
adjective
Frequency rank
#470 of 5,000

El profesor era malo y no sabía dar clase.

The teacher was bad (at his job) and didn't how to teach.

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"malo" in example sentences

"malo" appears in 594 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 4 spellings (masculine, feminine, singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Eso es malo.

That's bad.

Tatoeba #1468359

Yo soy la mala.

I'm the bad one.

Tatoeba #7949665

Las cosas son muy malas.

Things are very bad.

Tatoeba #13901970

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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