🇪🇸 Spanish

puertos

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

los puertos

ports

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puertos
/los ˈpweɾtos/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say puertos in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈpweɾtos/

How do you pronounce puertos in Spanish?

puertos is pronounced /los ˈpweɾtos/ 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?

Puertos 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 ports?

The Spanish word for ports is los puertos — masculine.

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