🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

más o menos

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mas o menos

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Kind Of/ˈkaɪnd əv/
adverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Estoy más o menos cansado."

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2 senses
As adverb
  1. 1

    To a certain extent; moderately or somewhat, often used to soften a statement or description.

    "I am kind of tired after working all day."
  2. 2

    Used informally to indicate that something is approximately or roughly as described.

    "The movie was kind of weird, but I enjoyed it."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'kinda' is a colloquial contraction of 'kind of', which has its roots in Middle English 'kinde', meaning 'nature' or 'type'. The phrase evolved in American English during the 20th century as a casual way to express approximation or a degree of something.

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