la
feminine
/aˈθjenda/
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Translation
estate, ranch
Word origin
From Latin facienda ('things to be done'), from facere ('to do, to make'). It came to mean one's property or the work of an estate, and later the public treasury.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- facienda
Grammar
Genderfeminine
Pluralhaciendas
Examples
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The family lives on an old estate in the countryside.
cientos vacas .
The ranch has hundreds of cows and horses.
muchos .
He worked for many years on his grandfather's estate.
¿ impuestos ?
Have you already paid your taxes to the Treasury?
rodeada maíz.
The estate was surrounded by fields of maize.
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