Phrase · 📜 Proverbs and sayings

Más vale prevenir que curar.

Better safe than sorry.

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Why every word is where it is

Másadverbmorevaleverbis worth; (más vale) it is bettervaler · present · 3rd sing.prevenir1verbto prevent, to take precautionsinfinitiveque2conjunctionthatcurarverbto cureinfinitive.

Más → que: más … que
vale → prevenir: infinitive subject

Word for word: “Preventing is better than curing.”

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

1
Meaning: take precautions now to avoid problems later, like taking an umbrella just in case.
2
más … que compares two infinitives, with no de. Comparatives, superlatives and exclamatives →