🇪🇸 Spanish

leones

masculine

los leones

lions

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leones
/los leˈones/
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How do you say leones in Spanish?

IPA
/los leˈones/

How do you pronounce leones in Spanish?

leones is pronounced /los leˈones/ 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?

Leones 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 lions?

The Spanish word for lions is los leones — masculine.

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