🇪🇸 Spanish

cerdos

masculine

los cerdos

pigs

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cerdos
/los ˈθeɾðos/
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How do you say cerdos in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈθeɾðos/

How do you pronounce cerdos in Spanish?

cerdos is pronounced /los ˈθeɾðos/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El cerdo negro está muy gordo y come mucho maíz en la granja.

The black pig is very fat and eats a lot of corn on the farm.

El cerdo pequeño fue el primero en nacer de todos los hermanos.

The small pig was the first to be born among all the siblings.

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Why is it masculine?

Cerdos (pig) is masculine because it derives from Latin "porcus," which was a masculine noun, and Spanish retained the gender of its Latin ancestor. Like most Romance language nouns, Spanish gender largely reflects the grammatical gender inherited from Latin rather than following a logical semantic rule.

What is the Spanish word for pigs?

The Spanish word for pigs is los cerdos — masculine.

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