🇪🇸 Spanish

sedes

feminine

las sedes

headquarters

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sedes
/las ˈseðes/
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How do you say sedes in Spanish?

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/las ˈseðes/

How do you pronounce sedes in Spanish?

sedes is pronounced /las ˈseðes/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La sede principal de la empresa está ubicada en Madrid, y es muy moderna.

The main headquarters of the company is located in Madrid, and it is very modern.

La nueva sede que construyeron resultó ser más grande y eficiente que la anterior.

The new headquarters that they built turned out to be larger and more efficient than the previous one.

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Why is it feminine?

Sedes is feminine because it derives from the Latin "sedes" (seat, dwelling), which was a feminine noun in Latin. In Latin, "sedes" belongs to the third declension (not first/second), but many third declension nouns ending in "-es" were feminine. The word retained its feminine gender through the Romance language evolution from Latin to Spanish.

What is the Spanish word for headquarters?

The Spanish word for headquarters is las sedes — feminine.

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