afueras
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Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]See afuera.
Noun
[edit]afueras f pl (plural only)
- outskirts, suburbs
- Vivo en las afueras de la ciudad – es muy limpio y tranquilo.
- I live in the outskirts of the city – it's very clean and peaceful.
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Sensini”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- Vivía en las afueras de Girona, en una casa en ruinas que me habían dejado mi hermana y mi cuñado tras marcharse a México y acababa de perder un trabajo de vigilante nocturno en un cámping de Barcelona, el cual había acentuado mi disposición a no dormir durante las noches.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]afueras
- second-person singular present indicative of aforar (“to grant (a privilege or immunity)”)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “aforar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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