🇪🇸 Spanish

baños

masculine

los baños

bathrooms

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baños
/los ˈbaɲos/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say baños in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈbaɲos/

How do you pronounce baños in Spanish?

baños is pronounced /los ˈbaɲos/ 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?

Baños 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 bathrooms?

The Spanish word for bathrooms is los baños — masculine.

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