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son

/ˈson/, [ˈsõn]

are

Noun son m (plural sones)

  1. tone (pleasant sound)
  2. (music, genre, uncountable) son (Afro-Cuban musical form)
  3. (music) musical composition in this form

Verb son

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of ser.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes) present indicative form of ser.

Source: Wiktionary available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Examples

  • Es bien sabido que las arañas no son insectos.

    It's a well-known fact that spiders aren't insects.

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  • Por desgracia, estas hermosas palabras no son mías.

    Unfortunately, these beautiful words are not mine.

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  • Casi son las once y media.

    It's almost half past eleven.

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  • Ustedes son mis enemigos.

    You're my enemy.

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  • Las supersticiones provienen de la incapacidad de los hombres a reconocer que las coincidencias son simplemente coincidencias.

    Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.

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  • Olvídenlo, sólo son detalles triviales.

    Forget it, those are just trivial details.

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  • Los gemelos son tan parecidos que es casi imposible distinguirlos.

    The twins look so much alike it's next to impossible to distinguish one from the other.

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  • ¿En serio son primos?

    Are you guys really cousins?

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  • La gente que nos topamos en los libros pueden agradarnos, o bien porque se parecen a los amigos a los que apreciamos en la vida real, o bien porque son desconocidos a quienes estamos encantados de conocer.

    The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.

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  • Ellas son personas sin consciencia moral.

    They are persons with no moral conscience.

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