🇪🇸 Spanish

chocolates

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

los chocolates

chocolates

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chocolates
/los tʃokoˈlates/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say chocolates in Spanish?

IPA
/los tʃokoˈlates/

How do you pronounce chocolates in Spanish?

chocolates is pronounced /los tʃokoˈlates/ 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?

Chocolates 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 chocolates?

The Spanish word for chocolates is los chocolates — masculine.

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