triste — this is an adjective meaning “sad” and it’s pronounced as if you were saying TREEST
triste — this is the Spanish cognate of the same definition, but it is pronounced as if you were saying TREES-TAY
I will admit that in all my years of teaching Spanish to high school students, I did not know that the word “triste” existed in English. However, I ca…
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