🇪🇸 Spanish

año

masculine

el año

year

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año
/el ˈaɲo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say año in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈaɲo/

How do you pronounce año in Spanish?

año is pronounced /el ˈaɲo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El año pasado fue muy productivo para nuestro proyecto.

Last year was very productive for our project.

Este año nuevo traerá cambios importantes a la empresa.

This new year will bring important changes to the company.

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Why is it masculine?

Año is masculine because it derives from the Latin "annus," which was a masculine noun, and Spanish inherited this grammatical gender through regular sound changes (Latin -us typically became Spanish -o in masculine nouns). This gender assignment simply persisted through the language's evolution from Latin, as most noun genders did.

What is the Spanish word for year?

The Spanish word for year is el año — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchannée flips!l'feminine
🇮🇹 Italianannol'masculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseanoomasculine

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