🇪🇸 Spanish

viento

masculine

el viento

wind

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viento
/el ˈbjento/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say viento in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈbjento/

How do you pronounce viento in Spanish?

viento is pronounced /el ˈbjento/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El viento fuerte derribó el árbol antiguo.

The strong wind knocked down the old tree.

Este viento cálido viene del sur.

This warm wind comes from the south.

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Why is it masculine?

Viento is masculine because it derives from Latin "ventus," which was grammatically masculine in the second declension, and Spanish retained this gender classification when the word evolved. This is a straightforward case of gender inheritance from Latin rather than following any particular Spanish morphological pattern.

What is the Spanish word for wind?

The Spanish word for wind is el viento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchventlemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianventoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseventoomasculine

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