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sonar

/soˈnaɾ/, [soˈnaɾ]

dream, sonar, sound

Verb sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)

  1. (intransitive) to sound, to ring
  2. (intransitive) to sound (appear)
    Suena como que ya te has decidido.
    It sounds like your mind is made up.
    Suena como si no tuviéramos otra opción.
    It sounds like we don't have any other choice.
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) to ring a bell, to be familiar
    Me suena el nombre, pero no lo ubico.
    His name rings a bell but I can't place him.
  4. (transitive) to make sound, to play
    sonar la bocina
    to sound the horn
  5. (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to blow one's nose
    Despues de estornudar, me soné la nariz.
    After I sneezed, I blew my nose.

Noun sonar m (plural sonares)

  1. sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)

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

Examples

  • Ella contestó al teléfono en cuanto lo oyó sonar.

    She answered the telephone as soon as she heard the bell ring.

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  • Tan extraño como pueda sonar, lo que dijo Tom es lo que pasó verdaderamente.

    As strange as it may sound, what Tom said is what really happened.

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  • Haz sonar el timbre cuando me requieras.

    Ring the bell when you want me.

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  • Es muy fácil sonar natural en su lengua nativa y muy fácil sonar poco natural en su lengua no nativa.

    It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.

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  • La historia puede sonar extraña, pero es cierta.

    The story may sound strange, but it is true.

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  • Oí el timbre sonar.

    I heard the bell ring.

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  • No creo que llegue a sonar nunca como un hablante nativo, sin importar cuánto lo intente.

    I don't think I'll ever sound like a native speaker no matter how much I try.

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  • Cuando alguien habla con tal floritura retórica , empieza a sonar como si estuvieran mintiendo.

    When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.

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  • Aprecio cuando un hablante nativo trata de ayudarme a sonar más como un hablante nativo.

    I appreciate it when a native speaker tries to help me sound more like a native speaker.

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  • No quiero sonar entrometido, pero ¿está todo bien?

    I don't want to be intrusive, but is everything all right?

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