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el león
lion
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How do you say león in Spanish?
How do you pronounce león in Spanish?
león is pronounced /el leˈon/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
El león africano es más grande que la leona.
The African lion is larger than the lioness.
Un león joven y fuerte atacó al cazador valiente.
A young and strong lion attacked the brave hunter.
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Why is it masculine?
León is masculine because it derives from Latin "leō" (nominative), which was grammatically masculine in Latin—a gender assignment that simply carried over into Spanish and most Romance languages with no deeper semantic reason. Gender in Romance languages is largely an inherited feature from Latin rather than logically determined by meaning.
What is the Spanish word for lion?
The Spanish word for lion is el león — masculine.
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