🇪🇸 Spanish

brazo

masculine

el brazo

arm

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brazo
/el ˈbɾaθo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say brazo in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈbɾaθo/

How do you pronounce brazo in Spanish?

brazo is pronounced /el ˈbɾaθo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El brazo izquierdo de mi padre es muy fuerte.

My father's left arm is very strong.

El brazo roto del jugador necesita un yeso nuevo.

The injured player's broken arm needs a new cast.

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Why is it masculine?

Brazo is masculine because it derives from Latin "brachium" (arm), which was a second-declension masculine noun. In Latin, second-declension nouns ending in -ium were typically masculine (unlike neuter nouns which ended in -um), and this gender was preserved when Spanish evolved from Latin.

What is the Spanish word for arm?

The Spanish word for arm is el brazo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchbraslemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianbraccioilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesebraçoomasculine

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