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Provincia is feminine in Spanish. The article is la, so the full form is la provincia ("province").
FEMININEla provincia
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How do you say provincia in Spanish?
How do you pronounce provincia in Spanish?
provincia is pronounced /la pɾoˈβinθja/ in Spanish.
Example sentences
La provincia argentina es muy grande y tiene muchas ciudades importantes.
The Argentine province is very large and has many important cities.
La provincia costera fue la primera en adoptar la nueva ley ambiental.
The coastal province was the first to adopt the new environmental law.
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Why is it feminine?
Provincia is feminine because it derives from the Latin feminine noun *provincia* of the first declension. In Latin, first declension nouns typically have the -a ending and are feminine by default. Spanish inherited this grammatical gender directly from Latin, preserving the feminine gender as the word evolved into Spanish.
What is the Spanish word for province?
The Spanish word for province is la provincia — feminine.
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