🇪🇸 Spanish

verja

feminine

la verja

fence

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verja
/la ˈbeɾxa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say verja in Spanish?

IPA
/la ˈbeɾxa/

How do you pronounce verja in Spanish?

verja is pronounced /la ˈbeɾxa/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La verja oxidada del jardín necesita ser reparada pronto.

The rusty fence in the garden needs to be repaired soon.

Pintamos la verja antigua de color blanco para que luciera más moderna.

We painted the old fence white so that it would look more modern.

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Why is it feminine?

Verja (fence/rod) is feminine because it derives from Latin "virgula," the diminutive of "virga" (rod/stick), which was a feminine noun in Latin, and this grammatical gender was preserved through the Romance language evolution into Spanish.

What is the Spanish word for fence?

The Spanish word for fence is la verja — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchclôturelafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianrecinto flips!ilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesecercaafeminine

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