🇪🇸 Spanish

vida

feminine

la vida

life

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vida
/la ˈbiða/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vida in Spanish?

IPA
/la ˈbiða/

How do you pronounce vida in Spanish?

vida is pronounced /la ˈbiða/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La vida es hermosa y corta.

Life is beautiful (fem.) and short (fem.).

Mi vida pasada fue muy diferente a la vida presente que tengo ahora.

My past (fem.) life was very different from the present (fem.) life that I have now.

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Why is it feminine?

Vida is feminine because it descends from Latin "vita," which was grammatically feminine, and this gender was preserved when the word evolved into Spanish—a pattern that held for most Latin words ending in "-a" that became feminine nouns in Romance languages.

What is the Spanish word for life?

The Spanish word for life is la vida — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchvielafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianvitalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesevidaafeminine

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