mayor

A1Rank #475

older; bigger, greater; elderly (comparative of grande)

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

mi novio es mayor que yo

my boyfriend is older than me

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"mayor" in example sentences

"mayor" appears in 518 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Él es el mayor.

He is the eldest.

Tatoeba #1077063

Ella tiene algo con los hombres mayores.

She has a thing for older men.

Tatoeba #1469556

Ella es mayor que él.

She's older than him.

Tatoeba #981201

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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