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donde esta la biblioteca

/ˈdoʊndeɪ ɛsˈtɑ lɑ bɪblioʊˈtɛkɑ/

donde esta la biblioteca phrase: stock phrase used to denote someone's poor knowledge of Spanish.

Phrase

donde esta la biblioteca

  1. Stock phrase used to denote someone's poor knowledge of Spanish.
    • Ola, como esta usted? Donde esta la biblioteca? Everyone who took high school Spanish knows that those phrases are probably all they recognize from their teenaged efforts to learn one of the three most spoken languages in the world.2002 [2001 May 15], Raoul Lowery Contreras, “English + Spanish == The USA”, in A Hispanic View: American Politics and the Politics of Immigration, →ISBN, page 257
    • "Dónde está la biblioteca, Pedro?" "What?" "I'm thinking of opening a new Globo Gym down in Mexico City, so I've been boning up on my Spanish."2004, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Forms of donde esta la biblioteca

alternative formdónde está la biblioteca

Origin of donde esta la biblioteca

From Spanish dónde (“interrogative form of where”) + está (“be, is, are”) + la (“the”) + biblioteca (“library”) (where is the library); a phrase apparently often taught to beginning Spanish-language learners. The accents are usually omitted in English.

Questions about donde esta la biblioteca

What does donde esta la biblioteca mean?
Donde esta la biblioteca means stock phrase used to denote someone's poor knowledge of Spanish.
What part of speech is donde esta la biblioteca?
Donde esta la biblioteca is a phrase.
How do you pronounce donde esta la biblioteca?
Donde esta la biblioteca is pronounced /ˈdoʊndeɪ ɛsˈtɑ lɑ bɪblioʊˈtɛkɑ/.

Words near donde esta la biblioteca in the dictionary

  1. Donchery
  2. Donchez
  3. donchu
  4. Donda
  5. dondakaya
  6. donde esta la biblioteca
  7. donder
  8. donder and blitzen
  9. dondered
  10. dondering
  11. Dondero

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