🇬🇧🇪🇸 tibia - tibia : English Lesson

Meaning of "tibia" ("tibia"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

The tibia is the larger and stronger of the two bones in your lower leg. It runs from your knee down to your ankle, right in the front. Your tibias help you stand, walk, run, jump, and kick a ball. When you bang your shin on a table and it really, really hurts, that’s your tibia getting bumped. You have two tibias—one in each leg.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The chair attacked my tibia again, so now we are officially enemies.

I told my tibia we were going to dance, and it immediately scheduled some wobbling.

I marched around the house shouting, “Fear my mighty tibias!” and then tripped over a sock.

My tibia went on strike after gym class and refused to climb any more stairs.

The tibia is the second largest bone in your body, which explains why it makes such a big dramatic scene when you bang your shin on the table.

He kicked the ball, struck a hidden rock, and felt a clean crack in his tibia. He dropped, looked down, and saw the tibia through the skin, the tibia, the tibia white and sharp. Blood, shock, then a friend lifted his foot, set the tibia gently, wrapped it, and promised to carry him home.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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