🇪🇸 Spanish

queso

masculine

el queso

cheese

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queso
/el ˈkeso/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say queso in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈkeso/

How do you pronounce queso in Spanish?

queso is pronounced /el ˈkeso/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El queso italiano es más sabroso que el queso francés.

The Italian cheese is more tasty than the French cheese.

Este queso blanco está delicioso, pero aquel queso amarillo es el mejor.

This white cheese is delicious, but that yellow cheese is the best.

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Why is it masculine?

Queso is masculine because it derives from Latin "caseus," which was a masculine noun. Spanish inherited both the word and its grammatical gender from Latin, where masculine nouns typically remained masculine in the Romance language evolution.

What is the Spanish word for cheese?

The Spanish word for cheese is el queso — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchfromagelemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianformaggioilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesequeijoomasculine

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