🇪🇸 Spanish

blanco

masculine

el blanco

white

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blanco
/el ˈblanko/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say blanco in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈblanko/

How do you pronounce blanco in Spanish?

blanco is pronounced /el ˈblanko/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El blanco es mi color favorito para las paredes de mi casa.

White is my favorite color for the walls of my house.

El blanco puro del papel nuevo es perfecto para escribir mi carta.

The pure white of the new paper is perfect for writing my letter.

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Why is it masculine?

Blanco is masculine because it is an adjective ending in "-o". In Spanish, adjectives ending in "-o" are masculine by default, following a productive grammatical pattern. The word comes from Latin "blancus," which itself was borrowed from Germanic languages, but the masculine gender is primarily explained by the modern Spanish "-o" ending convention for adjectives.

What is the Spanish word for white?

The Spanish word for white is el blanco — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchblanclemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianbiancoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesebrancoomasculine

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