No. 4,310 in Spanish
préstamos
"Préstamos" means "loans" in English.
In a sentence
El banco ofrece préstamos para comprar casas.
The bank offers loans to buy houses.
Here, 'préstamos' is used to refer to financial loans provided by a bank or financial institution.
Tomé algunos préstamos de la biblioteca para investigar.
I took some loans from the library to research.
In this context, 'préstamos' refers to borrowing books or materials, showing a cultural or situational use of the term.
Los préstamos lingüísticos enriquecen el vocabulario de un idioma.
Linguistic borrowings enrich a language's vocabulary.
Here 'préstamos' is used metaphorically to describe loanwords or borrowed terms from other languages.
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