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Meaning of sombra | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
ˈsombɾa

Definitions

  1. shade
    masculine
  2. shadow
    masculine
  3. shadow, ghost
    masculine
  4. Equivalent to 'shade': shadow (a dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object)

Equivalents

English shade shadow

Examples

“D’esta fontiña áa beira froleada sentado áa sombra de un chorón estóu doído o peito, á alma esconsolada triste morrendo pouco a pouco vóu.”

By the flowery side of this spring, sitting in the shade of a weeping willow I am, aching heart, disconsolate soul, sad, little by little I die

“estaua Paris adeante su a soonbra de hũ moy grande et forte rrobre”

Paris was ahead, under the shadow of a very large and strong oak tree

“Cando penso que te fuches, negra sombra que me asombras, ó pé dos meus cabezales tornas facéndome mofa. Cando maxino que es ida, no mesmo sol te me amostras, i eres a estrela que brila, i eres o vento que zoa. Si cantan, es ti que cantas, si choran, es ti que choras, i es o marmurio do río i es a noite i es a aurora. En todo estás e ti es todo, pra min i en min mesma moras, nin me abandonarás nunca, sombra que sempre me asombras.”

When I think that you're gone, dark shadow that shadows me, at the feet of my bed you return to mock me. When I'm imagining you're gone, in the sun itself you show yourself, and you are the star that glitters and you are the wind that howls. if they sing, it's you, singing, if they cry, it's you, crying, and you are the river's murmur, and you're the night, and you're the dawn. Everywhere you're and you're everything, for me and in myself you dwell, but you'll never left me alone, shadow that always shadows me.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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