🇪🇸 Spanish

enero

masculine

el enero

January

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enero
/el eˈneɾo/
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How do you say enero in Spanish?

IPA
/el eˈneɾo/

How do you pronounce enero in Spanish?

enero is pronounced /el eˈneɾo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El enero pasado fue muy frío y nevado.

Last January was very cold and snowy.

Este enero llegaron muchos turistas al pueblo.

This January many tourists arrived in the town.

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Why is it masculine?

Enero is masculine because it derives from Latin "Ianuarius" (the month of Janus), and Latin month names were grammatically masculine, a gender that Spanish retained. The masculine gender persists in most Romance languages for months inherited from their Latin month names.

What is the Spanish word for January?

The Spanish word for January is el enero — masculine.

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