achacable
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /at͡ʃaˈkable/ [a.t͡ʃaˈka.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: a‧cha‧ca‧ble
Adjective
achacable m or f (masculine and feminine plural achacables)
- ascribable; attributable to
- 2015 July 31, “Sánchez: “El mejor aliado de Mas es Rajoy en La Moncloa””, in El País[1]:
- Los socialistas reconocen que el país está empezando a crecer económicamente pero ni siquiera ese dato objetivo le es achacable a Rajoy, sino “a factores externos”.
- The socialists recognize that the country is starting to grow economically, but not even this objective fact is attributable to Rajoy, but rather to "external factors".
Further reading
- “achacable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024