🇪🇸 Spanish

pasajero

masculine

el pasajero

passenger

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pasajero
/el pasaˈxeɾo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say pasajero in Spanish?

IPA
/el pasaˈxeɾo/

How do you pronounce pasajero in Spanish?

pasajero is pronounced /el pasaˈxeɾo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El pasajero cansado durmió durante todo el vuelo.

The tired passenger (male) slept during the entire flight.

El pasajero francés fue el primero en bajar del avión.

The French passenger (male) was the first to get off the plane.

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Why is it masculine?

Pasajero is masculine because it derives from the Latin "passagarius" (related to "passus," meaning passage or step), and Latin nouns ending in "-arius" typically became masculine "-ero" nouns in Spanish; the gender was preserved through this regular sound change rather than being reassigned.

What is the Spanish word for passenger?

The Spanish word for passenger is el pasajero — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchpassagerlemasculine

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