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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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This word is part of lesson 77.