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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

caso

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kaso

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Case/keɪs/
nounverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #250 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

Derived from the Latin 'casus', meaning 'chance', 'occurrence', or 'fall', stemming from the verb 'cadere' (to fall). It entered Middle English via Old French 'cas', gradually expanding its semantic range from an instance of something happening to a container, a legal matter, and a grammatical inflection.

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