🇪🇸 Spanish

teléfonos

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masculine

los teléfonos

telephones

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teléfonos
/los teˈlefonos/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say teléfonos in Spanish?

IPA
/los teˈlefonos/

How do you pronounce teléfonos in Spanish?

teléfonos is pronounced /los teˈlefonos/ 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?

Teléfonos 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 telephones?

The Spanish word for telephones is los teléfonos — masculine.

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