🇪🇸 Spanish

musgo

masculine

el musgo

moss

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musgo
/el ˈmusɡo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say musgo in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈmusɡo/

How do you pronounce musgo in Spanish?

musgo is pronounced /el ˈmusɡo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El musgo verde cubre completamente las rocas húmedas del bosque.

The green moss completely covers the damp rocks in the forest.

Este musgo antiguo es muy raro y debe ser protegido por las autoridades ambientales.

This ancient moss is very rare and must be protected by environmental authorities.

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Why is it masculine?

Musgo is masculine because it derives from Latin "muscus," which was masculine in gender, and Spanish preserved this grammatical gender through regular sound changes (Latin -us typically became Spanish -o for masculine nouns). This inheritance of Latin gender is the standard rule for most Spanish nouns with -o endings.

What is the Spanish word for moss?

The Spanish word for moss is el musgo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmousse flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianmuschioilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemusgoomasculine

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