🇪🇸 Spanish

décadas

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Décadas is feminine in Spanish. The article is las, so the full form is las décadas ("decades").

FEMININE

décadas is the plural of década

las décadas — decades

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décadas
/las ˈdekaðas/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say décadas in Spanish?

IPA
/las ˈdekaðas/

How do you pronounce décadas in Spanish?

décadas is pronounced /las ˈdekaðas/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La década pasada fue muy importante para nuestra empresa.

The past decade was very important for our company.

Esa década próxima traerá cambios tecnológicos revolucionarios.

That upcoming decade will bring revolutionary technological changes.

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Why is it feminine?

Décadas is feminine because it derives from Latin "decas" (nominative) / "decadis" (genitive), which comes from Greek "dekas." In Latin, this word belonged to the third declension with feminine gender. Spanish inherited this feminine gender when the word entered the language, as is typical for Latin third-declension nouns ending in "-as" that were feminine in the source language.

What is the Spanish word for decades?

The Spanish word for decades is las décadas — feminine.

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