🇪🇸 Spanish

vaca

feminine

la vaca

cow

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vaca
/la ˈbaka/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vaca in Spanish?

IPA
/la ˈbaka/

How do you pronounce vaca in Spanish?

vaca is pronounced /la ˈbaka/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La vaca blanca es muy productiva y da mucha leche cada día.

The white cow is very productive and gives a lot of milk every day.

Esta vaca antigua fue la primera que compramos para nuestra granja.

This old cow was the first one we bought for our farm.

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Why is it feminine?

Vaca is feminine because it descends from Latin "vacca," which was already grammatically feminine in Latin, likely due to the feminine suffix "-a" that typically marks female animals in Romance languages. The word's gender has been preserved through regular sound changes from Latin to Spanish.

What is the Spanish word for cow?

The Spanish word for cow is la vaca — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchvachelafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianmuccalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesevacaafeminine

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