🇪🇸 Spanish

estado

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

el estado

state

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estado
/el esˈtaðo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say estado in Spanish?

IPA
/el esˈtaðo/

How do you pronounce estado in Spanish?

estado is pronounced /el esˈtaðo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El estado actual del país es muy preocupante porque el gobierno no ha tomado medidas efectivas.

The current state of the country is very worrying because the government has not taken effective measures.

El estado nuevo de la economía requiere que los ciudadanos sean más prudentes con sus gastos.

The new state of the economy requires that citizens be more careful with their spending.

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Why is it masculine?

Estado is masculine because it derives from the Latin "status" (masculine), which referred to a condition or state of being; the masculine gender was preserved when the word evolved into Spanish, following the pattern of Latin second-declension nouns ending in -us that typically became masculine -o nouns in Romance languages.

What is the Spanish word for state?

The Spanish word for state is el estado — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchétatl'masculine
🇮🇹 Italianstatolomasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseestadoomasculine

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