🇪🇸 Spanish

calidades

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feminine

las calidades

qualities

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calidades
/las kaliˈðaðes/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say calidades in Spanish?

IPA
/las kaliˈðaðes/

How do you pronounce calidades in Spanish?

calidades is pronounced /las kaliˈðaðes/ 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?

Calidades 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 qualities?

The Spanish word for qualities is las calidades — feminine.

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