menos

A1Rank #189

less

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

Camina menos rápido, por favor.

Walk less quickly, please.

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"menos" in example sentences

"menos" appears in 809 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Menos es más.

Less is more.

Tatoeba #3855989

Más o menos.

More or less.

Tatoeba #7251941

No te quiero menos que a ella.

I don't love you any less than I do her.

Tatoeba #6584272

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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