🇪🇸 Spanish

sequías

feminine

las sequías

droughts

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sequías
/las seˈkias/
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How do you say sequías in Spanish?

IPA
/las seˈkias/

How do you pronounce sequías in Spanish?

sequías is pronounced /las seˈkias/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La sequía prolongada devastó completamente las cosechas del país.

The prolonged drought completely devastated the country's harvests.

Esta sequía histórica es la más grave que hemos enfrentado en décadas.

This historical drought is the most serious one we have faced in decades.

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Why is it feminine?

Sequías is feminine because it derives from Latin "siccitas" (dryness), which belonged to the third declension feminine nouns ending in "-itas"—a suffix that consistently produced feminine nouns in Latin and carried that gender into Spanish as "-ía" endings.

What is the Spanish word for droughts?

The Spanish word for droughts is las sequías — feminine.

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