🇪🇸 Spanish

tomate

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

el tomate

tomato

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tomate
/el toˈmate/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say tomate in Spanish?

IPA
/el toˈmate/

How do you pronounce tomate in Spanish?

tomate is pronounced /el toˈmate/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El tomate rojo está maduro y listo para la ensalada.

The red tomato is ripe and ready for the salad.

Este tomate grande fue cultivado en el huerto orgánico.

This large tomato was grown in the organic garden.

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Why is it masculine?

Tomate is masculine in Spanish. While it does derive from Nahuatl *tomatl*, the gender assignment is better explained by the general pattern that Spanish nouns ending in -e are typically masculine, regardless of their etymological origin. The Nahuatl origin accounts for the word's presence in Spanish, but the masculine gender follows standard Spanish gender patterns for -e ending nouns rather than a special rule for indigenous loanwords.

What is the Spanish word for tomato?

The Spanish word for tomato is el tomate — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchtomate flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianpomodoroilmasculine

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