🇪🇸 Spanish

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masculine

el

tea

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/el te/
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How do you say té in Spanish?

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/el te/

How do you pronounce té in Spanish?

té is pronounced /el te/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El té verde es muy saludable porque contiene antioxidantes poderosos.

The green tea is very healthy because it contains powerful antioxidants.

El té caliente que preparé esta mañana estaba delicioso y reconfortante.

The hot tea that I prepared this morning was delicious and comforting.

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Why is it masculine?

Té is masculine in Spanish. It derives from Chinese (茶 chá) through Portuguese traders in the 16th-17th centuries. The word is masculine, though the exact historical reason for this gender assignment is not definitively documented. In Spanish, many words ending in -é tend to be masculine (e.g., "café", "inglés"), which may have influenced or reinforced té's gender.

What is the Spanish word for tea?

The Spanish word for tea is el té — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchthélemasculine

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