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el teléfono
telephone
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How do you say teléfono in Spanish?
How do you pronounce teléfono in Spanish?
teléfono is pronounced /el teˈlefono/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
El teléfono nuevo que compré es muy moderno y tiene una pantalla grande.
The new telephone that I bought is very modern and has a large screen.
Mi teléfono antiguo dejó de funcionar, así que tuve que reemplazarlo con uno más reciente.
My old telephone stopped working, so I had to replace it with a more recent one.
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Why is it masculine?
Teléfono is masculine because it derives from Greek "tele-" (far) + "phoné" (sound/voice), and in Spanish, nouns ending in "-o" are typically masculine by default gender assignment rules. The word was coined in the 19th century following standard Spanish morphological patterns where Greek-origin words ending in "-o" naturally took masculine gender.
What is the Spanish word for telephone?
The Spanish word for telephone is el teléfono — masculine.
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