🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

caso

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kaso

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Case/keɪs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #800 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"En este caso, necesitamos reconsiderar nuestro enfoque."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A particular situation or example of something.

    "In this case, we need to reconsider our approach."
  2. 2

    A container or covering for something.

    "She placed her glasses in a protective case."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'case' originates from the Latin 'casus', meaning 'fall' or 'event', which evolved into the Old French 'cas' before entering Middle English. Historically, it has shifted from a physical sense of 'falling' to denote various contexts, including grammatical cases and legal situations.

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