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Phrase of the Day: Pese a

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La locución del día:

pese a

Pronunciación aproximada:

PESS-eh-ah Listen

Significado:

despite

Ejemplo:

Bill Gates, presidente y uno de los fundadores de Microsoft, es la persona más rica del mundo, pese a haber perdido 12.000 millones de dólares en el 2002.

Traducción:

Bill Gates, president and one of the founders of Microsoft, is the richest person in the world despite having lost $12 billion in 2002.

Aviso:

Pese a is typically followed by a noun or, as in ;the sampple sentence, an infinitive functioning as a noun.

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