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estaba mal

was wrong

→ estar
phrase Uncommon #22,821
was wrong Can also mean was sick, was broken, or was in bad condition depending on context.
SP: Creo que tu respuesta estaba mal.
EN: I think your answer was wrong.

Mi frase estaba mal, pero la profesora la corrigió.

My sentence was wrong, but the teacher corrected it.

Todo estaba mal.

Everything was wrong.

Sabía que algo estaba mal.

I knew something was wrong.

Tom sabía que estaba mal hacer lo que estaba haciendo.

Tom knew it was wrong to do what he was doing.

Mi frase estaba mal, pero el profesor la corrigió.

My sentence was wrong, but the teacher corrected it.

Puso como excusa que su reloj estaba mal.

He gave the excuse that his watch was faulty.

Tomás sabe que lo que hizo estaba mal.

Tomás knows that what he did was wrong.

Tom no hizo un gran esfuerzo para descubrir qué estaba mal.

Tom didn’t make much of an effort to find out what was wrong.

Sabía que algo estaba mal contigo.

I knew something was wrong with you.

— Ne Zha (2019)

El anuncio estaba mal impreso.

The ad was printed incorrectly.

Tom fingió no saber que lo que había hecho estaba mal.

Tom pretended not to know that what he had done was wrong.

El acta de infracción dice que el auto estaba mal estacionado.

The parking ticket says the car was parked illegally.

— Relatos salvajes (2014)

La forma en que Tom hizo eso estaba mal.

The way Tom did that was wrong.

La recogí porque estaba mal.

I picked her up because she was sick.

— Todo sobre mi madre (1999)