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Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan de bada, from Arabic بَاطِل (bāṭil). Compare Galician and Spanish en balde.
Pronunciation
Adverb
debades
- in vain
- Synonyms: en va, inútilment
- no debades… ― not for nothing…
2017 October 8, Ricard Ruiz Garzón, “Més humans que un replicant”, in El País:D’aquesta nissaga, titllada de prometeica en al·lusió al rebel que va modelar els humans del fang i els va atorgar el foc de la cultura i la tecnologia, sovint se’n subratlla el càstig al creador per haver desafiat els déus o la natura, sobretot a partir d’una Mary Shelley que el 1818 va crear el seu —el març bicententari— Frankenstein (no debades subtitulat El modern Prometeu).- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Valencia) free of charge
- Synonym: gratis
Derived terms
Further reading
Galician
Verb
debades
- second-person plural present subjunctive of deber