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Paciencia is feminine in Spanish. The article is la, so the full form is la paciencia ("patience").
FEMININEla paciencia
patience
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How do you say paciencia in Spanish?
How do you pronounce paciencia in Spanish?
paciencia is pronounced /la paˈθjenθja/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
La paciencia infinita de mi abuela es admirable.
My grandmother's infinite patience is admirable. (Note: 'la' and 'infinita' agree with feminine 'paciencia')
Una paciencia tan grande no es común en las personas impacientes.
Such great patience is not common in impatient people. (Note: 'una' and 'grande' modify feminine 'paciencia'; without feminine gender agreement, the sentence would be grammatically incorrect)
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Why is it feminine?
Paciencia is feminine because it derives from Latin "patientia," which was a first declension noun ending in "-ia"—a category that was grammatically feminine in Latin and remained so when Romance languages inherited these words. This "-ia" to "-ia" transmission preserved the feminine gender across Spanish and other Romance languages.
What is the Spanish word for patience?
The Spanish word for patience is la paciencia — feminine.
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