🇪🇸 Spanish

cartas

feminine

las cartas

letters

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cartas
/las ˈkaɾtas/
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How do you say cartas in Spanish?

IPA
/las ˈkaɾtas/

How do you pronounce cartas in Spanish?

cartas is pronounced /las ˈkaɾtas/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La carta antigua que encontré en el ático era muy valiosa.

The old letter that I found in the attic was very valuable.

Mi abuela escribió una carta hermosa para mi cumpleaños.

My grandmother wrote a beautiful letter for my birthday.

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Why is it feminine?

Cartas is feminine because it derives from Latin "charta" (also feminine), which originally referred to papyrus paper used for writing—a noun that inherited the feminine gender from its Greek source "χάρτης" (chartēs). Like many Spanish nouns ending in "-a," it retained the feminine gender from its Latin ancestor.

What is the Spanish word for letters?

The Spanish word for letters is las cartas — feminine.

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