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el polvo
dust
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How do you say polvo in Spanish?
How do you pronounce polvo in Spanish?
polvo is pronounced /el ˈpolβo/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
El polvo blanco cubrió toda la mesa después de la construcción.
The white dust covered the entire table after construction.
Ese polvo fino es muy peligroso para los pulmones de los trabajadores.
That fine dust is very dangerous for the workers' lungs.
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Why is it masculine?
Polvo is masculine because it descends from Latin "pulvis" (dust), which was a second-declension masculine noun in Latin, and Spanish inherited this grammatical gender when the word evolved phonetically. The Latin masculine gender was preserved through the regular sound changes that transformed "pulvis" into "polvo" during the development of Vulgar Latin into Spanish.
What is the Spanish word for dust?
The Spanish word for dust is el polvo — masculine.
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