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Example sentences for: una

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Picture una boca de agua `a water mouth'=`a fire hydrant,' A person with a closed head (` cerrado de cabeza ') is certainly narrow-minded.
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.”
If one `has a rat' or `catches a Turk' in Spain ( tener un ratón; coger una turca ) he gets drunk.
The Basques take verbal beating too, for in Spain una basqueria is `a Basque [a dirty trick].
' Basquear is probably derived from Celtic waska `oppression'; una basquería `a dirty trick' might be from Basque , although the word for the Basque language is vascuense (eúscaro in Basque), and one would expect the Spanish spellings of words relating to the Basques to begin with a v . I do not know about pato , as in ser el pato de la boda : ducks are usually considered objects of sympathy, as in pagar el pato `to pay the duck, be blamed for someone else's misdeeds' or hacerse pato `to make oneself a duck, play dumb' rather than “be the life of the party.”