🇪🇸 Spanish

cielos

masculine

los cielos

skies

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cielos
/los ˈθjelos/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cielos in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈθjelos/

How do you pronounce cielos in Spanish?

cielos is pronounced /los ˈθjelos/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El cielo azul es hermoso esta noche.

The blue sky is beautiful tonight. (Masculine adjective 'azul' and 'hermoso' agree with 'el cielo')

El cielo despejado nos permitió ver todas las estrellas.

The clear sky allowed us to see all the stars. (Masculine adjective 'despejado' agrees with 'el cielo'; feminine 'despejada' would be incorrect)

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Why is it masculine?

Cielos is masculine because it derives from the Latin "caelum," which was grammatically masculine in the second declension, and Spanish inherited this gender classification when the word evolved phonetically. Like many Spanish nouns, its gender is ultimately an inheritance from Latin morphology with no deeper semantic reason.

What is the Spanish word for skies?

The Spanish word for skies is los cielos — masculine.

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