🇪🇸 Spanish

bandera

feminine

la bandera

flag

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bandera
/la banˈdeɾa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say bandera in Spanish?

IPA
/la banˈdeɾa/

How do you pronounce bandera in Spanish?

bandera is pronounced /la banˈdeɾa/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La bandera roja ondea orgullosamente en la plaza principal.

The red flag waves proudly in the main square.

Esta bandera histórica es muy antigua y valiosa para nuestra nación.

This historic flag is very old and valuable to our nation.

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Why is it feminine?

Bandera is feminine because it ends in "-a", following the productive Spanish pattern where most nouns ending in "-a" are feminine. While the word does derive from Latin "banderia" (feminine), the gender is most directly explained by the regular Spanish morphological pattern rather than requiring detailed Latin etymological justification. Spanish learners can reliably apply the "-a" ending rule to predict that "bandera" is feminine.

What is the Spanish word for flag?

The Spanish word for flag is la bandera — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdrapeau flips!lemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianbandieralafeminine

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