Translation
hunger
Word origin
From Vulgar Latin famine, from Latin fames ('hunger'). The Latin f became a silent h.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- fames
- English cognates
- famine, famish
Grammar
Examples
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I am very hungry because I did not have breakfast this morning.
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Hunger made me think of the most delicious things.
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She cooked something quickly to satisfy the children's hunger.
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Many families still go hungry in various parts of the world.
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She was very hungry after the walk in the mountains.
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The children were very hungry when they came back from school.
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Spanish Collocations: tomar una decisión, hacer una pregunta, cometer un error
Spanish Correlative Comparison: cuanto más... más, cada vez más, el doble
The Future and Conditional of Probability in Spanish (¿Qué hora será?, Serían las tres)
Spanish Fixed Similes: dormir como un tronco, más bueno que el pan, terco como una mula
Spanish Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
Spanish Noun Gender: The -o/-a Rule, the Ending Patterns, and the Exceptions Worth Memorising
Spanish Quantifiers: mucho, poco, demasiado, todo, cada (mucha gente vs trabaja mucho)
Spanish Regional Grammar: voseo (vos tenés), ustedes, and preterite vs perfect
Reported Questions and Commands in Spanish (me preguntó si, me dijo que viniera)
Si Clauses in Spanish: Real and Unreal Conditions (si llueve, si tuviera, si hubiera)
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