Spanish word of the week: venta

This week’s Spanish word of the week is venta.

Venta is a noun that means sale. You can listen to the pronunciation of venta in the audio clip below:

Venta is the noun from the verb vender, to sell, and refers to any action of selling something:

Necesitamos su aprobación para realizar la venta. We need your approval to go ahead with the sale.

Han prohibido la venta de armas a ese país. They’ve prohibited arms sales to that country.

As so often happens with Spanish, the prepositions you use in set phrases are not the same as in English. Notice a and en in these examples:

El apartamento todavía está a la venta. The appartment, it’s still for sale.

Sale a la venta el mes que viene. It will go on sale next month.

poner algo en venta to put something up for sale

Ya hemos puesto la casa en venta. We’ve already put the house up for sale.

Come back next week for another insight into Spanish vocabulary!

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