🇪🇸 español

documento

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masculine

el documento

document

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documento
/el dokuˈmento/
← masculine feminine →

¿Cómo se dice documento en español?

AFI
/el dokuˈmento/

How do you pronounce documento in español?

documento is pronounced /el dokuˈmento/ in español.

Frases de ejemplo

El documento oficial fue rechazado porque estaba incompleto.

The official document was rejected because it was incomplete.

Este documento importante debe ser firmado por el director responsable.

This important document must be signed by the responsible director.

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¿Por qué es masculine?

Documento is masculine in Spanish. It derives from Latin *documentum*, which was originally neuter in Latin but became masculine in Spanish. The word comes from the Latin verb *docēre* (to teach), making it literally "that which teaches." This gender shift from neuter to masculine is a common pattern in Romance language evolution, where many Latin neuter nouns were reassigned to the masculine gender in Spanish and other Romance languages.

¿Cómo se dice document en español?

En español, document se dice el documento — masculine.

Género según el idioma

IdiomaPalabraArtículoGénero
🇫🇷 Frenchdocumentlemasculine
🇮🇹 Italiandocumentoilmasculine

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