puerto
el puerto
port
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How do you say puerto in Spanish?
How do you pronounce puerto in Spanish?
puerto is pronounced /el ˈpweɾto/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
El puerto está muy concurrido hoy porque llegan varios barcos importantes.
The port is very busy today because several important ships are arriving.
El puerto antiguo de Barcelona es hermoso y tiene muchos restaurantes excelentes.
The old port of Barcelona is beautiful and has many excellent restaurants.
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Why is it masculine?
Puerto is masculine because it derives from Latin "portus" (harbor/port), which was a second-declension masculine noun, and Spanish inherited its grammatical gender from this Latin origin. Like most Spanish nouns ending in "-o," it retained the masculine gender from its Latin masculine form.
What is the Spanish word for port?
The Spanish word for port is el puerto — masculine.
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