🇪🇸 Spanish

mundo

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 mundo

world

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mundo
/el ˈmundo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mundo in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈmundo/

How do you pronounce mundo in Spanish?

mundo is pronounced /el ˈmundo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El mundo antiguo fascinaba a los historiadores con sus misterios.

The ancient world fascinated historians with its mysteries.

El mundo moderno es completamente diferente al mundo pasado.

The modern world is completely different from the past world.

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Why is it masculine?

Mundo is masculine because it derives from the Latin "mundus," which was a masculine noun (likely from Etruscan origin), and Spanish maintained the gender of its Latin predecessors through regular phonetic evolution. Gender in Romance languages is largely inherited from Latin rather than following predictable rules, making "mundo" an example of this historical continuity rather than an exception.

What is the Spanish word for world?

The Spanish word for world is el mundo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmondelemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianmondoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemundoomasculine

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