🇪🇸 Spanish

canchas

feminine

las canchas

courts

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canchas
/las ˈkantʃas/
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How do you say canchas in Spanish?

IPA
/las ˈkantʃas/

How do you pronounce canchas in Spanish?

canchas is pronounced /las ˈkantʃas/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La cancha nueva es muy grande y moderna.

The new field is very large and modern.

Esta cancha está llena de jugadores entusiasmados.

This field is full of enthusiastic players.

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Why is it feminine?

Canchas is feminine. It derives from Quechua *kancha* (an enclosure or field), and when Spanish borrowed this indigenous word, it was assigned feminine gender. The gender assignment may have been influenced by the word's phonetic ending in -a, which is a common feminine marker in Spanish, or by analogy with similar Spanish words like *plaza* (feminine). Borrowed words from indigenous languages often follow Spanish gender conventions based on their phonetic form rather than etymological patterns.

What is the Spanish word for courts?

The Spanish word for courts is las canchas — feminine.

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