Adjective: malo
Hyphenation: ma‧lo
| Singular m. | malo |
| Singular f. | mala |
| Plural m. | malos |
| Plural f. | malas |
Sample Sentences
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El profesor era malo y no sabía dar clase. (The teacher was bad (at his job) and didn't how to teach.)
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Soy malo con los números. (I'm bad at numbers.)
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Soy malo con las mujeres. (I'm bad with women.)
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Soy malo para el inglés. (I'm bad at English.)
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Soy malo en ajedrez. (I'm bad at chess.)
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El profesor era malo y reprobó a toda la clase. (The teacher was evil and flunked the whole class.)
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mala persona (bad person)
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Fumar es malo para la salud. (Smoking is bad for your health.)
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Esa manzana está mala, tírala. (That apple's bad, throw it in the trash.)
Adjectives inflected like malo
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-?
3. Proto-Italic *malos
4. Latin malus
5. Latin malum
6. Spanish malo
7. Inherited from Latin malus. Cognate with Ladino malo, Italian malo, Galician mao, Portuguese mau. See: Latin Adjectives '
malus', Latin Adjectives '
malus', Italian Adjectives '
malo', Galician Adjectives '
mao', Portuguese Adjectives '
mau'.
Verbs referencing "malo"
Portuguese Adjectives
mau, Galician Adjectives
malo, Galician Adjectives
mao.
Translations