🇪🇸 Spanish

cuarto

masculine

el cuarto

room

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cuarto
/el ˈkwaɾto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cuarto in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈkwaɾto/

How do you pronounce cuarto in Spanish?

cuarto is pronounced /el ˈkwaɾto/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El cuarto oscuro estaba lleno de muebles antiguos.

The dark room was full of ancient furniture.

Mi cuarto favorito de la casa es el primero a la izquierda.

My favorite room in the house is the first one on the left.

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Why is it masculine?

Cuarto is masculine because it derives from the Latin "quartus," which was a masculine adjective meaning "fourth," and Spanish retained the masculine gender from its Latin ancestor. The word evolved from its original meaning as an ordinal number to also mean "room" or "quarter," but maintained the grammatical gender of its Latin source.

What is the Spanish word for room?

The Spanish word for room is el cuarto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchchambre flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianstanza flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesequartoomasculine

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