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maten

kill

  • Translations

Verb maten

  1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes) present subjunctive form of matar.
  2. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of matar.
  3. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present subjunctive form of matar.

Source: Wiktionary available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Examples

  • Siempre se puede encontrar dinero cuando lo necesitamos para mandar a hombres a que los maten en la frontera; pero no queda nada cuando llega el momento de ayudarles.

    Money's always to be found when we need to send men to be killed on the border; but there's none left when it comes time to help them.

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  • ¡Hazte el muerto para que no te maten!

    Play dead so you don't get killed!

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