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el baño
bathroom
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How do you say baño in Spanish?
How do you pronounce baño in Spanish?
baño is pronounced /el ˈbaɲo/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
El baño pequeño está ocupado, pero el baño grande está disponible.
The small bathroom is occupied, but the large bathroom is available.
El baño antiguo necesita ser renovado porque tiene azulejos rotos.
The old bathroom needs to be renovated because it has broken tiles.
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Why is it masculine?
Baño is masculine. While it does derive from Latin "balneum" (a neuter noun), the gender assignment in Spanish cannot be definitively explained by a single mechanism. The shift from Latin neuter to Spanish masculine likely resulted from general patterns in Romance language evolution where many Latin neuter nouns were reassigned to either masculine or feminine gender based on their phonetic endings and analogy with existing noun patterns. The -o ending in Spanish strongly correlates with masculine nouns, which may have reinforced the masculine gender for "baño."
What is the Spanish word for bathroom?
The Spanish word for bathroom is el baño — masculine.
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