paja – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of paja

Noun: paja
Gender: f Hyphenation: pa‧ja
Singular fpaja
Plural fpajas

Sample Sentences

  • Él tiene puesto un sombrero de paja. (He is wearing a straw hat)
  • Me hizo una paja muy rica en el coche mientras yo conducía. (She gave me an awesome handjob in the car while I was driving.)
  • Todos los políticos hablan paja. (All politicians tell lies.)
  • Mi amor no te hablo paja / Aunque no es la verdad [2013, Devendra Banhart, “Mi Negrita”, in Mala:]
  • ¡Que canción paja tocaron en la radio! (What a great song they played on the radio!)
  • ¿Tenemos que caminar treinta cuadras? ¡Qué paja! (We have to walk thirty blocks? But I'm so tired!)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish paja, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). See: Latin Nouns 'palea'.

Verbs referencing "paja"

Asturian Nouns paya, Catalan Nouns palla, Galician Nouns palla, Portuguese Nouns palha, Dutch Nouns pagga.

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