🇪🇸 Spanish

mares

masculine

los mares

seas

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mares
/los ˈmaɾes/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mares in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈmaɾes/

How do you pronounce mares in Spanish?

mares is pronounced /los ˈmaɾes/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El mar azul es profundo y misterioso.

The blue sea is deep and mysterious.

El mar cálido atrae a muchos turistas durante el verano.

The warm sea attracts many tourists during the summer.

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Why is it masculine?

Mares is masculine in Spanish because it derives from Latin "mare" (sea), which was neuter in classical Latin. During the evolution from Latin to Romance languages, the neuter gender largely disappeared. Neuter nouns were typically reanalyzed as either masculine or feminine based on their endings and phonetic patterns. "Mare" became masculine in Spanish and most Romance languages, likely because the final -e was reinterpreted as a masculine ending pattern rather than preserving the original neuter classification.

What is the Spanish word for seas?

The Spanish word for seas is los mares — masculine.

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