🇪🇸 Spanish

pan

masculine

el pan

bread

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pan
/el pan/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say pan in Spanish?

IPA
/el pan/

How do you pronounce pan in Spanish?

pan is pronounced /el pan/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El pan blanco está delicioso, pero el pan integral es más saludable.

The white bread is delicious, but the whole wheat bread is healthier.

Ese pan francés que compramos ayer estaba duro esta mañana.

That French bread that we bought yesterday was hard this morning.

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Why is it masculine?

Pan is masculine in Spanish because it derives from Latin "pānis," which was masculine in the second declension; Spanish inherited this grammatical gender along with the word itself during the Romance language evolution from Vulgar Latin.

What is the Spanish word for bread?

The Spanish word for bread is el pan — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchpainlemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianpaneilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesepãoomasculine

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