🇪🇸 Spanish

padres

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masculine

los padres

fathers

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padres
/los ˈpaðɾes/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say padres in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈpaðɾes/

How do you pronounce padres in Spanish?

padres is pronounced /los ˈpaðɾes/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El padre orgulloso llevó a su hijo al primer día de escuela.

The proud father took his son to his first day of school.

Mi padre es un hombre trabajador que siempre está disponible para ayudarnos.

My father is a hardworking man who is always available to help us.

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Why is it masculine?

Padres is masculine because it derives from Latin "pater" (father), which carried masculine grammatical gender in Latin's three-gender system. Spanish inherited both the word and its gender when Romance languages evolved from Latin. While Spanish has many masculine nouns ending in "-e" (such as "coche", "árabe", "jefe"), gender in Spanish is ultimately determined by etymological inheritance from Latin rather than by ending patterns alone.

What is the Spanish word for fathers?

The Spanish word for fathers is los padres — masculine.

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