matar

A2Rank #527

to kill, slay

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

Conjugate matar - all tenses →

Te van a matar, sin piedad.

They're going to kill you, no mercy.

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"matar" in example sentences

"matar" appears in 398 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 30 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

¿Por qué la mataste?

Why did you kill her?

Tatoeba #4030118

¿Qué la mató?

What killed her?

Tatoeba #10357389

Yo los maté.

I killed them.

Tatoeba #6018439

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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