Words similar to una

Example sentences for: una

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

The Basques take verbal beating too, for in Spain una basqueria is `a Basque [a dirty trick].
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.
dar calabazas is properly `to give pumpkins' (plural) echar una cana al aire `to toss one gray hair in the air' (not just `gray hair')
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.”