Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Thursday May 28, 2009

parar, verb:
to stop

Parar is a very common way of saying to stop in different contexts.

Paramos a poner gasolina
We stopped to get petrol

El tren no para aquí
The train doesn’t stop here

Parar + de + infinitive means to stop doing something

Por fin paró de llover
It finally stopped raining


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