🇪🇸 Spanish

fuego

masculine

el fuego

fire

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fuego
/el ˈfweɣo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say fuego in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈfweɣo/

How do you pronounce fuego in Spanish?

fuego is pronounced /el ˈfweɣo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El fuego ardiente destruyó la casa completamente.

The burning fire destroyed the house completely.

El fuego intenso era tan peligroso que los bomberos tuvieron que evacuar a todos.

The intense fire was so dangerous that the firefighters had to evacuate everyone.

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Why is it masculine?

Fuego is masculine because it derives from Latin "focum" (fire, hearth), which was a second-declension masculine noun, and Spanish inherited its gender classification from Latin. The word's masculine gender persisted through the regular sound changes that transformed Latin into Romance languages.

What is the Spanish word for fire?

The Spanish word for fire is el fuego — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchfeulemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianfuocoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesefogoomasculine

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