🇪🇸 Spanish

novela

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

la novela

novel

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novela
/la noˈβela/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say novela in Spanish?

IPA
/la noˈβela/

How do you pronounce novela in Spanish?

novela is pronounced /la noˈβela/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La novela española que leí fue muy emocionante y me hizo llorar.

The Spanish novel that I read was very moving and made me cry.

Esa novela romántica es la más vendida de todas las que he comprado.

That romantic novel is the best-selling one of all that I have bought.

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Why is it feminine?

Novela is feminine because it derives from the Latin feminine noun "novella" (a short new story), which retained its feminine gender when adopted into Spanish; the "-a" ending reinforced this feminine classification in Romance languages.

What is the Spanish word for novel?

The Spanish word for novel is la novela — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchroman flips!lemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianromanzo flips!ilmasculine

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