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la patata
potato
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How do you say patata in Spanish?
How do you pronounce patata in Spanish?
patata is pronounced /la paˈtata/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
La patata española es más deliciosa que la patata francesa.
The Spanish potato is more delicious than the French potato.
Esta patata pequeña es perfecta para la sopa.
This small potato is perfect for the soup.
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Why is it feminine?
Patata is feminine because it derives from Taíno (an indigenous Caribbean language) "batata," which was borrowed into Spanish. The feminine gender was assigned following the productive Spanish pattern of words ending in "-ata," such as "zapata" (shoe) and "corbata" (tie), which are typically feminine. When borrowing foreign words, Spanish speakers applied this existing morphological pattern to assign gender to the loanword.
What is the Spanish word for potato?
The Spanish word for potato is la patata — feminine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 French | pomme de terre | la | feminine |
| 🇮🇹 Italian | patata | la | feminine |
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | batata | a | feminine |
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