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Phrase · 🗺️ Regional colloquial expressions

No tengo plata para el pasaje.

I don't have money for the fare.

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Noadverbnot, notengoverbI havetener · present · 1st sing.plata1nounsilver; (Latin America) moneyfem. · sing.paraprepositionfor, to, in order toeldeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definitepasaje2nounfare, ticketmasc. · sing..
  • tengo → plata: object

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    plata = money in much of South America (Spain: dinero, colloquial pasta).
  2. 2
    el pasaje = the fare, the ticket (bus, plane).