🇪🇸 Spanish

uva

feminine

la uva

grape

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uva
/la ˈuβa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say uva in Spanish?

IPA
/la ˈuβa/

How do you pronounce uva in Spanish?

uva is pronounced /la ˈuβa/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La uva morada es más dulce que la uva verde.

The purple grape is sweeter than the green grape.

Esta uva pequeña es perfecta para hacer vino tinto de excelente calidad.

This small grape is perfect for making excellent quality red wine.

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Why is it feminine?

Uva is feminine because it descends from Latin "uva" (grape), which was feminine in the original language, and Spanish retained this grammatical gender. The Latin feminine ending -a naturally mapped onto Spanish's feminine gender system, where most words ending in -a are feminine.

What is the Spanish word for grape?

The Spanish word for grape is la uva — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchraisin flips!lemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianuval'feminine

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