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tallos

masculine

los tallos

stems

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tallos
/los ˈtaʎos/
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How do you say tallos in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈtaʎos/

How do you pronounce tallos in Spanish?

tallos is pronounced /los ˈtaʎos/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El tallo verde de la planta es muy delgado y flexible.

The green stem of the plant is very thin and flexible.

El tallo largo del girasol necesita un soporte fuerte para mantenerse erguido.

The long stem of the sunflower needs strong support to stay upright.

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Why is it masculine?

Tallos is masculine because it derives from Latin "talus" (a cutting or shoot of a plant), which belonged to the second declension masculine nouns in Latin, and this grammatical gender was preserved when the word evolved into Spanish. Like many Latin masculine nouns ending in -us, it retained the masculine gender while the Latin ending transformed into the Spanish -o.

What is the Spanish word for stems?

The Spanish word for stems is los tallos — masculine.

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