🇪🇸 Spanish

puerto

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

el puerto

port

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puerto
/el ˈpweɾto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say puerto in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈpweɾto/

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.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianportoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseportoomasculine

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