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llevado

carried

adjective yeh-BAH-doh Rare
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Also means

led

Usage Note

Llevado is the past participle of llevar used as an adjective, and it agrees in gender and number. In idiomatic use llevado por means 'driven by' or 'swept along by' (llevado por la emoción = 'carried away by emotion'). The phrase mal llevado (describing a person) means 'badly managed' or informally 'ill-tempered'; bien llevado means 'well handled'.

Examples

"El proyecto fue llevado con mucha dedicación."

Natural Translation

The project was carried out with great dedication.

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