| The Spanish word | |
cantar |
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| to sing, chant | |
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Keiko canta.
Keiko sings. |
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¿Vas a cantar?
Are you going to sing? |
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Él no canta bien.
He cannot sing well. | He can't sing well. | He doesn't sing well. |
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Los pájaros cantan.
The birds are singing. | Birds sing. |
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Él siguió cantando.
He kept singing. | He kept on singing. |
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Cantemos y bailemos.
Let's sing and dance. |
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Los pájaros cantaban.
The birds sang. |
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Tengo ganas de cantar.
I feel like singing. |
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Él no sabe cantar bien.
He cannot sing well. |
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Le oí cantar una canción.
I heard her singing a song. |
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¿Puedes cantar esta canción?
Can you sing this song? |
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Ojalá pudiera yo cantar bien.
If only I could sing well. |
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Nunca le he escuchado cantar.
I never heard him sing. |
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Cantemos esa canción en inglés.
Let's sing the song in English. |
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Me apetece cantar bajo la lluvia.
I like singing in the rain. |
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Los pájaros cantaban en los árboles.
Birds were singing among the trees. | The birds used to sing in the trees. |
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Cuando ella era pequeña cantaba bien.
She could sing well when she was a child. |
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Los pajarillos cantaban sobre el árbol.
Birds were singing up in the tree. |
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Ella cantó una canción japonesa para nosotros.
She sang a Japanese song for us. |
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| Examples sourced from tatoeba.org |

