🇪🇸 Spanish

calidad

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

la calidad

quality

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calidad
/la kaliˈðað/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say calidad in Spanish?

IPA
/la kaliˈðað/

How do you pronounce calidad in Spanish?

calidad is pronounced /la kaliˈðað/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La calidad excelente del producto me sorprendió gratamente.

The excellent quality of the product pleasantly surprised me.

Esta calidad superior es lo que buscábamos para nuestra empresa.

This superior quality is what we were looking for for our company.

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Why is it feminine?

Calidad is feminine because it derives from Latin "qualitas," which was a feminine noun ending in "-tas"—a productive feminine suffix in Latin that Spanish inherited, producing the modern feminine ending "-dad" (as in "ciudad," "verdad," "libertad"). This Latin feminine suffix class systematically became feminine nouns in Spanish and other Romance languages.

What is the Spanish word for quality?

The Spanish word for quality is la calidad — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianqualitàlafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesequalidadeafeminine

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