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How do you say chocolate in Spanish?
How do you pronounce chocolate in Spanish?
chocolate is pronounced /el tʃokoˈlate/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
El chocolate caliente es delicioso en invierno.
The hot chocolate is delicious in winter.
Este chocolate oscuro es más amargo que el chocolate blanco.
This dark chocolate is more bitter than the white chocolate.
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Why is it masculine?
Chocolate is masculine in Spanish (el chocolate). It derives from Nahuatl "xocolatl" through Spanish borrowing. While many Spanish nouns ending in -e are masculine, the gender assignment for borrowed words is often arbitrary and not predictable by morphological rules alone. The masculine gender of "chocolate" is established by convention in Spanish usage rather than explained by a productive grammatical pattern.
What is the Spanish word for chocolate?
The Spanish word for chocolate is el chocolate — masculine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 French | chocolat | le | masculine |
| 🇮🇹 Italian | cioccolato | il | masculine |
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | chocolate | o | masculine |
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