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la carretera
highway
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How do you say carretera in Spanish?
How do you pronounce carretera in Spanish?
carretera is pronounced /la kareˈteɾa/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
La carretera principal está cerrada por construcción, así que tenemos que tomar la carretera secundaria.
The main highway is closed for construction, so we have to take the secondary highway.
La carretera peligrosa fue reparada recientemente y ahora es mucho más segura para los conductores.
The dangerous highway was recently repaired and is now much safer for drivers.
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Why is it feminine?
Carretera is feminine because it derives from the Latin "carreta" (a type of cart or wagon), which was feminine, and Spanish inherited this grammatical gender through the regular sound changes that transformed Latin -a endings into Spanish feminine nouns. The word ultimately traces back to a root meaning "cart" or "vehicle," and words for vehicles and roads in Romance languages often retained feminine gender from their Latin origins.
What is the Spanish word for highway?
The Spanish word for highway is la carretera — feminine.
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