No. 12,458 in Spanish
mataría
"Would kill."
In a sentence
Si tuviera hambre suficiente, me comería un plato entero de verduras aunque no me gusten.
If I were hungry enough, I would eat an entire plate of vegetables even if I don't like them.
mataría: used as a conditional mood verb to express a hypothetical situation.
Mataría por tener el tiempo suficiente para viajar por el mundo.
I would die to have enough time to travel the world.
mataría: used metaphorically to express strong desire, not in a literal sense.
Ella dijo que mataría sus plantas si no las regaba regularmente.
She said she would kill her plants if she didn't water them regularly.
mataría: indicates a conditional sense of causing harm or ending life in a specific context.
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