🇪🇸 Spanish

dirección

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feminine

la dirección

direction

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dirección
/la diɾekˈθjon/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say dirección in Spanish?

IPA
/la diɾekˈθjon/

How do you pronounce dirección in Spanish?

dirección is pronounced /la diɾekˈθjon/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La dirección nueva del colegio es muy organizada y eficiente.

The new management of the school is very organized and efficient.

Debemos enviar nuestro currículum a la dirección general de la empresa.

We must send our resume to the general management of the company.

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Why is it feminine?

Dirección is feminine because it derives from the Latin feminine noun "directio" (nominative form of the feminine third-declension noun), which referred to the act of directing or guiding and inherited the feminine gender through Spanish's evolution from Latin. This gender was preserved in the suffix "-ción," which consistently produces feminine nouns in Spanish when attached to verb stems.

What is the Spanish word for direction?

The Spanish word for direction is la dirección — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdirectionlafeminine
🇮🇹 Italiandirezionelafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesedireçãoafeminine

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