🇪🇸 Spanish

futuro

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 futuro

future

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futuro
/el fuˈtuɾo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say futuro in Spanish?

IPA
/el fuˈtuɾo/

How do you pronounce futuro in Spanish?

futuro is pronounced /el fuˈtuɾo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El futuro lejano será completamente diferente al presente.

The distant future will be completely different from the present.

El futuro próximo de nuestra empresa es muy prometedor.

The near future of our company is very promising.

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Why is it masculine?

Futuro is masculine because it derives from the Latin "futurus" (masculine nominative singular), the future participle of "esse" (to be), which retained its grammatical gender through the evolution from Latin to Spanish.

What is the Spanish word for future?

The Spanish word for future is el futuro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianfuturoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesefuturoomasculine

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