🇪🇸 Spanish

movimiento

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

el movimiento

movement

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movimiento
/el moβiˈmjento/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say movimiento in Spanish?

IPA
/el moβiˈmjento/

How do you pronounce movimiento in Spanish?

movimiento is pronounced /el moβiˈmjento/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El movimiento rápido del bailarín fue muy elegante.

The dancer's quick movement was very elegant.

El movimiento político importante cambió el país para siempre.

The important political movement changed the country forever.

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Why is it masculine?

Movimiento is masculine because it derives from the Latin "movimentum," which carried the masculine gender, and Spanish retained this gender assignment when the word evolved through sound changes (the Latin -mentum suffix typically produces masculine nouns in Spanish). The -miento ending in Spanish is consistently masculine because it developed from the Latin masculine suffix -mentum.

What is the Spanish word for movement?

The Spanish word for movement is el movimiento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmouvementlemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianmovimentoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemovimentoomasculine

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