Example sentences for: gato

How can you use “gato” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • buscarle la quinta pata al gato `to look for the cat's fifth leg' is very common with the meaning `to look for trouble'

  • Almost certainly a loanword, in Old English it is catt ; Welsh and Cornish cath ; Gaelic cat ; Old Irish cat ; Dutch and Danish kat ; Middle Dutch katte ; Swedish katt, katta ; Old Norse kött-r ; Old High German chazza, chataro ; Middle High German katero, kater ; Modern German Katze , but Modern German and Dutch also have kater tomcat ( tom denoting the male of certain species of animal, notably the cat); French chat ; Spanish and Portuguese gato ; Italian gatto ; Old North French cat ; West German katta ; Breton kaz ; Old Slavonic kotŭka, kotka ; Slavonic kot ; Bulgarian kotka ; Russian, male kot , female kotchka, koshka ; Bohemian, male kot , female kotka ; Lithuaniane kate ; Finnish katti ; Polish kot , male cat or tomcat koczur, kocur .

  • needs the accent on qué buscar tres pies al gato does not sound right;

  • Aquí hay gato encerrado `There is a locked-up cat here'=`I smell a rat,' meter gato por liebre `to put a cat in the place of a hare'=`to be taken in,' and buscar tres pies al gato `to look for three feet on the cat'=`to look for trouble' are three feline phrases.


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