Accordbúho
el búho
owl
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How do you say búho in Spanish?
How do you pronounce búho in Spanish?
búho is pronounced /el ˈbuo/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
El búho marrón cazaba ratones toda la noche en el bosque oscuro.
The brown owl hunted mice all night in the dark forest.
Un búho blanco y esponjoso se posó en la rama del árbol antiguo.
A white and fluffy owl perched on the branch of the old tree.
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Why is it masculine?
Búho is masculine because it derives from Latin "bubo," which was a masculine noun referring to an owl or a swollen lymph node, and Spanish inherited the masculine gender from this Latin origin. Spanish grammatical gender often reflects the gender of the Latin words from which modern words descended, even when no clear morphological rule explains it.
What is the Spanish word for owl?
The Spanish word for owl is el búho — masculine.
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