🇪🇸 Spanish

nombre

masculine

el nombre

name

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nombre
/el ˈnombɾe/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say nombre in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈnombɾe/

How do you pronounce nombre in Spanish?

nombre is pronounced /el ˈnombɾe/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El nombre completo del estudiante es Juan Carlos García López.

The full name of the student is Juan Carlos García López.

Ese nombre famoso fue pronunciado por el director durante la ceremonia.

That famous name was pronounced by the director during the ceremony.

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Why is it masculine?

Nombre is masculine because it derives from Latin "nomen," which was a masculine noun of the third declension, and Spanish inherited this grammatical gender along with the word itself through normal sound changes during the language's evolution from Vulgar Latin.

What is the Spanish word for name?

The Spanish word for name is el nombre — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchnomlemasculine
🇮🇹 Italiannomeilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesenomeomasculine

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