para
Meaning
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- for (directed at, intended to belong to or to be appropriate for)
- indicates application of an adjective; to
- to; so; in order to (indicates purpose)
- towards; to; in the direction of (indicates destination)
- introduces the location, direction or context that applies to a verb
- to (to the value of)
- in the opinion of
- about to; soon to be (indicates that something will happen soon)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pa‧ra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pa.ɾɐ/
Etymology
From earlier pera, from Old Galician-Portuguese pera, from Latin per (“through”) + ad (“to”).
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parar
- (intransitive) to stop (to no longer move)
- (intransitive) to stop (to no longer progress or do something)
- (transitive) to stop (to cause something to no longer move)
- (transitive) to stop (to cause something to no longer progress or happen)
- (auxiliary) to stop; to cease (to no longer do an action)
- (intransitive) to stop at (to pay a short visit to)
- (intransitive) to end up (to be in a place or situation, after something having happened)
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