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Spanish Word of the Day
Saturday, November 29, 2014

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abajo, adverb
down

We’ve already seen abajo meaning below:

Los platos y las tazas están abajo.
The plates and the cups are below.

Abajo is used a lot, and appears in several useful phrases with the meaning of down. For instance, calle abajo down the street:

corriendo calle abajo
running down the street

And cuesta abajo, downhill

Aquí todo va cuesta abajo.
Everything’s going downhill here.

You also often use it in the phrases aquí abajo/allí abajo, down here/down there:

Está ahí abajo esperando.
He’s down here waiting.

allí abajo en Cádiz
down there in Cadiz

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