/tɾes/
Translation
three
Word origin
From Latin tres ('three').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- tres
- English cognates
- three, trio, triple
Examples
, .
I have three meetings this morning, I am going to be busy.
.
The child is already three years old and speaks very well.
Sevilla.
At three in the afternoon the train to Seville departs.
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I bought three bottles of wine for the dinner.
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There are three days left until the holidays.
Where this fits
Used in
Stories
(12)El amigo de mi padre
1 min read · Core 1000
A Paula le duele todo
3 min read · Core 5000
Casi no llega
3 min read · Core 1000
El correo a la jefa
3 min read · Core 5000
El mejor café de la calle
3 min read · Core 5000
El nuevo doctor de Paula
3 min read · Core 1000
En el médico
3 min read · Core 1000
Le echo de menos
3 min read · Core 5000
María lleva una hora esperando
3 min read · Core 5000
El primer día de Laura
4 min read · Core 1000
La cena de los Pereira
4 min read · Core 1000
Los puestos del sábado
4 min read · Core 1000
Grammar articles
(24)Spanish Adjective Agreement: Endings, Position, and the Shortened Pre-Nominal Set
Spanish Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
Spanish Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
Spanish Text Cohesion and Style: signposting, avoiding repetition, en resumen
Spanish Comparatives: más que, menos que, tan como and the Four Irregulars
Spanish Compound Tenses: the Future Perfect and Past Anterior (habré hablado, hube hablado)
Conjugating Spanish -er Verbs in the Present Tense
Spanish False Friends (Part 2): molestar, recordar, soportar, pretender
The Future and Conditional of Probability in Spanish (¿Qué hora será?, Serían las tres)
Gustar and Verbs Like It: Why Spanish Says the Coffee Pleases You
Hace, Desde and Desde Hace: Saying How Long and How Long Ago in Spanish
Spanish Time and Frequency Phrases: de vez en cuando, a menudo, de repente, poco a poco
Spanish Imperfect: hablaba, comía, vivía and Only Three Irregulars
Spanish Impersonal Verbs: hay, hace, se habla and the No-Subject Constructions
Spanish Ordinals, Fractions, Dates and Time (el primer día, media hora, son las tres y cuarto)
Spanish Past Participles as Adjectives and Absolute Clauses (una puerta cerrada, terminada la reunión)
Por vs Para in Spanish: The Rules, a Chart, and a Practice Quiz
Spanish Compound Prepositions and Tricky Choices: delante de, a pesar de, soñar con
Spanish Prepositions: de, a, en, con, por, para and the Two Contractions
Spanish Quantifiers: mucho, poco, demasiado, todo, cada (mucha gente vs trabaja mucho)
Ser vs Estar: When to Use Each, with a Practice Quiz and Worksheets
Spanish Superlatives: El Mejor, El Más, and the -ísimo Ending
Spanish Verbal Periphrases: acabar de, llevar, volver a, seguir + verb
Verbs with Prepositions in Spanish (Régimen Preposicional): the Fixed Verb + Preposition Pairs
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