🇪🇸 Spanish

necesidades

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feminine

las necesidades

needs

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necesidades
/las neθesiˈðaðes/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say necesidades in Spanish?

IPA
/las neθesiˈðaðes/

How do you pronounce necesidades in Spanish?

necesidades is pronounced /las neθesiˈðaðes/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La necesidad urgente de agua potable afectó a toda la población.

The urgent need for drinking water affected the entire population.

Esta necesidad económica es más grave que la anterior.

This economic need is more serious than the previous one.

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Why is it feminine?

Necesidades is feminine because it derives from Latin "necessitas," which belonged to the third-declension feminine nouns ending in "-itas," a suffix that consistently produced feminine nouns in Latin and carried over into Romance languages.

What is the Spanish word for needs?

The Spanish word for needs is las necesidades — feminine.

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