Core 1,000 Part of Chapter 2

Libros del lunes

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Reading time: 2 min
Total words: 94
Unique words: 57
Typical word: #39

A paperback on a café table; its cover shows a dusty Mexican village street at noon, a church tower and a faint, see-through figure of a man in a sombrero.

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#	Freq	Word	Translation	Part of speech	Qualifications
1	1	deof, from	of, from	preposition	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
2	2	quethat, which, what	that, which, what	conjunction	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
3	2	quéwhat (interrogative); how, what a... (exclamative)	what (interrogative); how, what a... (exclamative)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
4	3	serto be (identity, essential qualities)	to be (identity, essential qualities)	verb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
5	4	nono, not	no, not	adverb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
6	5	ato, at	to, at	preposition	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
7	7	elthe (masculine singular)	the (masculine singular)	definite-article	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
8	8	estarto be (state, location)	to be (state, location)	verb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
9	9	yand	and	conjunction	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
10	10	enin, on, at	in, on, at	preposition	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
11	11	loit, him; the (neuter)	it, him; the (neuter)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
12	12	una, an (masculine)	a, an (masculine)	indefinite-article	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
13	14	tenerto have, to possess	to have, to possess	verb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
14	15	porfor, by, through	for, by, through	preposition	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
15	17	meme, myself	me, myself	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
16	23	teyou, yourself (informal)	you, yourself (informal)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
17	24	decirto say, to tell	to say, to tell	verb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
18	26	parafor, in order to	for, in order to	preposition	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
19	27	mimy	my	determiner	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
20	30	todoall, everything, whole	all, everything, whole	determiner	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation

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