🇪🇸 Spanish

memoria

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feminine

la memoria

memory

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memoria
/la meˈmoɾja/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say memoria in Spanish?

IPA
/la meˈmoɾja/

How do you pronounce memoria in Spanish?

memoria is pronounced /la meˈmoɾja/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La memoria larga de mi abuela le permite recordar historias increíbles de su infancia.

My grandmother's long memory allows her to remember incredible stories from her childhood.

Esta memoria fotográfica es muy rara y útil para los estudiantes que la poseen.

This photographic memory is very rare and useful for students who possess it.

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Why is it feminine?

Memoria is feminine in Spanish because it derives from the Latin feminine noun *memoria*, which retained its gender through the Romance language evolution; Latin nouns ending in *-ia* were typically feminine, and this pattern persisted in Spanish where most *-ia* nouns remain feminine today.

What is the Spanish word for memory?

The Spanish word for memory is la memoria — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchsouvenir flips!lemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianricordo flips!ilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesememóriaafeminine

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