🇪🇸 Spanish

búhos

masculine

los búhos

owls

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búhos
/los ˈbuos/
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How do you say búhos in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈbuos/

How do you pronounce búhos in Spanish?

búhos is pronounced /los ˈbuos/ 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?

Búhos 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 owls?

The Spanish word for owls is los búhos — masculine.

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