a veces
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Vulgar Latin ad vicēs (“at times”). Compare Italian a volte for a similar construction.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /a ˈbeθes/ [a ˈβ̞e.θes] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /a ˈbeses/ [a ˈβ̞e.ses] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Syllabification: a ve‧ces
Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) sometimes; occasionally; at times
- A veces es necesario hacer cosas que no te gustan.
- Sometimes, it is necessary to do things you don't like.
- 2021 April 26, John Malathronas, “¿Cuáles son los idiomas más fáciles (y difíciles) de aprender para los hablantes nativos de inglés?”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- Excepto que en húngaro se declinan y se conjugan los sustantivos, a veces juntos.
- Except that in Hungarian nouns are declined and conjugated, sometimes together.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “a veces”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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