Pronunciation: bajo (click to listen)
Origins: ‘bajo’ comes from the Latin term ‘bassus’.
English equivalents: under, underneath, beneath, below
Uses:
(According to la Real Academia de la Lengua Española)
1. We can use either 'bajo' or 'debajo de', as both terms have the same meaning:
- 'El perro está bajo la mesa' (Listen) = 'El perro está debajo de la mesa. (Listen)
(The dog is under the table.)
- Estoy bajo juramento. (Listen) (I am under oath.)
- Este pintor vivió bajo el reinado de Carlos I. (Listen)
(This painter lived under the reign of Carlos I [Charles the First].)
- Bajo su mirada infantil hay una mente asesina. (Listen)
(Under his childish mind, there is a murderous mind).
- Hace frío... ¡Dos grados bajo cero!. (Listen)
(It is cold... Two degrees below zero!)
- Bajo mi punto de vista, eso no es verdad. (Listen)
(From [Under] my point of view, that is not true.)
- Ese hombre vivía bajo los Mandamientos de la Ley de Dios. (Listen)
(That men lived under the Ten Commandments.)
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