🇪🇸 espagnol

patatas

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feminine

las patatas

potatoes

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patatas
/las paˈtatas/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on patatas en espagnol ?

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/las paˈtatas/

How do you pronounce patatas in espagnol?

patatas is pronounced /las paˈtatas/ in espagnol.

Exemples de phrases

La patata española es más deliciosa que la patata francesa.

The Spanish potato is more delicious than the French potato.

Esta patata pequeña es perfecta para la sopa.

This small potato is perfect for the soup.

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Pourquoi est-ce feminine ?

Patatas is feminine because it derives from Taíno (an indigenous Caribbean language) "batata," which was borrowed into Spanish. The feminine gender was assigned following the productive Spanish pattern of words ending in "-ata," such as "zapata" (shoe) and "corbata" (tie), which are typically feminine. When borrowing foreign words, Spanish speakers applied this existing morphological pattern to assign gender to the loanword.

Comment dit-on potatoes en espagnol ?

En espagnol, potatoes se dit las patatas — feminine.

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