Example sentences for: una

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

  • Portilla calls the shared laughing una burla colectiva (a collective joke), and states that collective laughter facilitates the collective “negación a la conducta requerida” (negation of required conduct).

  • To a Spanish-speaker, a noisy party is una boda de negros `a Negro wedding.

  • The Basques take verbal beating too, for in Spain una basqueria is `a Basque [a dirty trick].

  • Etymologists say it originally meant dueño de una casa `lord, or master, of a house' and is a contraction of duen de casa . Duen is the apocopated (cut-off) form of dueño , which stems from the Latin dominus . As the Spanish word evolved, the de was suffixed to the duen , the casa was omitted altogether, and el duende thus became “the lord of the house.”

  • The eight English proverbs cited above thus have respective equivalents as follows: Plus valet manibus passer quam sub dubio grus It is better to have a sparrow in the hand than a crane in doubt; Sero quam nunquam melius Better late than never, literally Late than never better; Sic fuit, est et erit: similis similem sibi quaerit Thus it was, is and will be; like seeks like for itself: notice the rhyme; Currens per prata non est lepus esca parata A hare running through the meadows is not a ready meal: a nice variation on the bear and his skin; Donati non sunt ora inspicienda caballi Gift horses do not need their mouths looking into: Scopae recentiores semper meliores New brooms are always best; Factum infectum fieri nequit A deed not done cannot happen: a negative equivalent to the English positive What is done cannot be undone as an alternative to the spilt milk; Roma non fuit una die condita (but of course, of course).


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