🇪🇸 Spanish

mesa

feminine

la mesa

table

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mesa
/la ˈmesa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mesa in Spanish?

IPA
/la ˈmesa/

How do you pronounce mesa in Spanish?

mesa is pronounced /la ˈmesa/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La mesa redonda es muy antigua y valiosa.

The round table is very old and valuable.

Compré una mesa nueva para mi sala porque la vieja estaba rota.

I bought a new table for my living room because the old one was broken.

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Why is it feminine?

Mesa is feminine because it derives from Latin "mensa" (table), which was a first-declension noun—a category that was overwhelmingly feminine in Latin and whose endings typically became feminine -a endings in Romance languages like Spanish.

What is the Spanish word for table?

The Spanish word for table is la mesa — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchtablelafeminine
🇮🇹 Italiantavolo flips!ilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemesaafeminine

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